A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users. — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Holless Wilbur Allen Copy Share Image
“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated.” — Michael Gorman Copy Share Image
To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking… — Jon Bing Copy Share Image
It's true that you might be socially isolated because you're reading in the library, at home and so on, but you're intensely… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams,… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I used to steal from the library, which is a crime and it's bad, but I just couldn't get enough books, and… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight,… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
When I was nine, I found a copy of 'Doctor Who: the Making of a Television Series' in the school library. It… — Mike Bartlett Copy Share Image
Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“I have always imagined that Heaven would be some kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Burges Copy Share Image
If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image