“Libraries for me have always had a cathedral-like ambiance, a hushed sanctuary where learning is revered, where we the people elevate books… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“Welcome young poet, in here you are free to follow your star to where you should be. That door of the library… — Bernard Kops Copy Share Image
“That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing… — John Cotton Dana Copy Share Image
Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd… — Richard Riordan Copy Share Image
“the rent is a little higher here but so far I've been able to pay it and that's a miracle too like… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
“Libraries are like houses of worship: Whether or not you use them yourself, it's important to know that they are there. In… — Jane Stanton Hitchcock Copy Share Image
The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is… — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“...he never so much as looks at me. He just sits there reading his old history books, that really gets me. I… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
“I have rooted myself into this quiet place where I don’t need much to get by. I need my visions. I need… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“In the library I search for a good book. We have many books, says Mrs. Rose, the librarian, and ALL of them… — Sally Murphy Copy Share Image
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I was interested in the questions that come up when the Internet gives you access not just to JSTOR libraries and to… — Ken Goldberg Copy Share Image
“YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“The great unsold truth of libraries is that people need them not because they’re about study and solitude, but because they’re about… — Bella Bathurst Copy Share Image
I think that the balance needs to be restored, and I would note that in the camp in which I am in,… — Rick Boucher Copy Share Image
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old… — John Callahan Copy Share Image
Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
