We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of # libraries it opens, not the number it closes down. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses. — Robert Mayer Copy Share Image
I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“I own a well-used library card and not much else, though it is true I live in a grand house full of… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read… — Woody Norris Copy Share Image
Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The thing with the question of oneness or non-oneness is that you can literally discuss it forever. You can go into the… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
“Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I love to read, but I didn't know how I could keep up with my eyes, ... But I remembered that the… — Dorothy Bryant Copy Share Image
“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I'm in the film industry, and I very seldom go to the theater now. It could be work, not being in New… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Why are you putting on lip gloss, my daughter?” Dad asked. “Trip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out. — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
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