Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness. — Lionel Johnson 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
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
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
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
“More than anything, memory resembles a library in alphabetical disorder, and with no collected works by anyone.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books… To be in a… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a… — Brewster Kahle Copy Share Image
“I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the… — Julie Halpern Copy Share Image
A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“Most people either love or hate old libraries. To some, a room like this--dim, high-ceilinged, dusty, smelling of old paper and crumbling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
The Bön texts are thousands of years old, and I am sure that not even 7 percent of what is still in… — Anne Klein Copy Share Image
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I put the books I was returning on the appropriate desk, and I began looking at the shelves of new arrivals. Most… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Dispersal was a conscious strategy of the plunderers. Only by destroying these collections could they build up new ones. Many of these… — Anders Rydell 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
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. — Robert Darnton 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
[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.” — Carlos María Domínguez 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
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
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
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
“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
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