I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders. — Mark Foley Copy Share Image
“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.” — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world of disasters. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings. — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
“More than anything, memory resembles a library in alphabetical disorder, and with no collected works by anyone.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“I’m going to the library to taunt an animal dumber than me. Boys count.” — Sara Wolf Copy Share Image
My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks. — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
“We have every book you’ll need,” Mr. Reynolds said with a wink behind his Coke-bottle glasses. “Just ask.” “Every book I’ll ever… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs, you'd see 'Jaws' and 'Star… — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to… — Arthur Curley Copy Share Image
When I figured that I could do anything if I was simply methodical about it. I went to the library - and… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
“The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
Dad told Uncle Seth not to screw things up,” she informed me as we washed our hands. “He said even if Uncle… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Desire overwhelmed me once she had gone. But it was not a desire for Homer. I had to return to the library.… — Christine Aziz Copy Share Image
“The Internet, however, is nothing like a library. Rather, it’s a giant repository where anyone can dump anything, from a first folio… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
“John Armato, a Public relations executive, cherishes his growing Library of Candidates. When people ask him if he's actually read all those… — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all. — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness. — Lionel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.” — Kenneth A. Bruffee Copy Share Image
CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time. — Kam Williams Copy Share Image
When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time. — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
