Library Quotes
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.
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.
Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never get past the first chapter. To me, the title better say everything there is to say about the book.
The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.
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.
Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?
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.
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.
..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
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.
I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.
A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread 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 closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.
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.
When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.
We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.
Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.
When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.
A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.
Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.
Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!