Library Quotes

Bookshelves stood against the four walls. They were shapely and well made, but were all second-hand;...

He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winte...

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

My library is an archive of longings.

During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a sour...

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future o...

Even the most misfitting childWho's chanced upon the library's worth,Sits with the genius of the Ear...

Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts t...

Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited p...

He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the pea...

As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as th...

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishme...

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

The visitor enters and says, "What a lot of books! Have you read them all?" ...The best answer is th...

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in w...

A library implies an act of faith.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in w...

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegat...

The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to fol...

And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is n...

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

In the wide pile, by others heeded not,Hers was one sacred solitary spot,Whose gloomy aisles and ben...

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very e...

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found ...

It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since...

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library

Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if s...

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port

Each one dreams the dream of life in his own way. I have dreamed it in my library; and when the hour...

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and...

When he was seventy-four years old the Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis began a book. He called it ...

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, an...

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so yo...

Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one pla...

Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least o...

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul cou...

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

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along ...

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

Chance wanting to defend her grandfather, but not about to leave the library, dustysafe sanctuary of...

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored ...

Without further ado I left the place, finding my route by the marks I had made on the way in. As I w...

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the...

He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in...

This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. ...

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Librar...

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some boo...

We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He think...

Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotte...

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is...

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, ...

At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind.

Now take my hand and hold it tight.I will not fail you here tonight,For failing you, I fail myselfAn...

When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a ...

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soun...

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be help...

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dicta...

Lord Peter's library was one of the most delightful bachelor rooms in London. Its scheme was black a...

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend yo...

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a l...

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twen...

I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycl...

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was r...

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

A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all tak...

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library ...

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat ...

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of l...

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings...

When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ...

Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere...

The student has his Rome, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in h...

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's...

It's like a sealed, forgotten chamber in me; I shan't feel complete until I've discovered its entran...

Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the do...

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that Americ...

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, t...

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patie...

I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and...

How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues? Take him to a library." - Albus Severus Po...

Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”And she sprinted away...

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”And she sprinted away...

Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and...

the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: “Our attention cannot...

He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was ...

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these."- Mr. Darcy

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...

Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be av...

They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...