Library Quotes

Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the Universe. Look me up.

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

Why buy a book when you can join a library?

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.

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

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.

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.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

The library is the mathematician's laboratory.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.

A library is the door to many lives.

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Dear me, how I love a library.

If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done?

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.