Library Quotes

After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me.

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display.

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.

Choose an author as you would a friend.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

I'd best head to the library. Research beckons.

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

You can judge a man by the books in his library.

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.