Library Quotes · Page 18

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

— Harper Lee

A library is also a place where love begins.

— Rudolfo Anaya

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.

— Robertson Davies

“There is no problem that a library card can't solve.”

— Eleanor Brown

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

— Charles Spurgeon

“Some people write letters, in the library.”

— Margaret Atwood

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

— Alan Bennett

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

— Terence McKenna

“I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

— Peter Singer

“A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read…

— Terry Goodkind

One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.

— Anonymous

I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more…

— David Mandel

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

— Haruki Murakami

“Nothing is more dangerous to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.”

— Robertson Davies

Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they…

— Joan Aiken

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music,…

— Charles Gates Jr

“It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is…

— Brandt Legg

“I mention the library only as a last resort. I recommend buying your own books... They can be spiced with underlines, question…

— Kató Lomb

Between the poor and any appreciation for modern science stands a wall made of failed schools, defunded libraries, denied opportunities, and the…

— John Michael Greer

I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre…

— Lesley Nicol

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to…

— Marian Burros

I don't have a dubstep library, so I asked fans to send me a list of songs they'd like me to spin.…

— B-Real

Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our…

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Eudora Welty

Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be…

— Sherman Alexie

“The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open…

— Chris Adrian

“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more…

— Ray Bradbury

Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty…

— Washington Irving

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

— Isaac Asimov

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

— Will Durant

“Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

— John Waters

“Your library makes our small corner of the world feel big...”

— Belle (Beauty & The Beast

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

— John Braine

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

— Allen Ginsberg

I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

— Maya Angelou

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

— Rita Mae Brown

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

— Bernard Berenson