Library Quotes · Page 37

Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.

— Tom Peters

Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

— Anonymous

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

— Ray Bradbury

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in…

— Augustine Birrell

“Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting…

— Justin Cronin

Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul.

— Diodorus Siculus

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

— Edith Wharton

“Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had…

— David Davis

“Libraries have ludicrously large “limits” on items you can check out (the Denver Public Libraries, for instance, let you check out 100…

— Anonymous

My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that,…

— Benjamin Franklin

When I was asked to play 'Miss Marple,' I was given the Kevin Elyot script for 'The Body in the Library.' I…

— Geraldine McEwan

“While it is true that outside the library I have lived a life of wickedness, inside it I've always been as devoted…

— Andrew Davidson

I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for…

— Charlie Kaufman

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you…

— Michelle Rodriguez

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go…

— Dean Koontz

I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place…

— Marion Dane Bauer

“It is fascinating that Baghdad had more than 100 public libraries in the year 891, Cordoba had 70 public libraries at the…

— Balqis Suja

'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters'…

— Robertson Davies

“Today the sight that discourages book people most is to walk into a public library and see computers where books used to…

— Larry McMurtry

When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel…

— William Lacy Clay, Jr

Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and…

— Courtney Milan

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library…

— Manly Hall

“Always be reading. Go to the library. There’s magic in being surrounded by books. Get lost in the stacks. Read bibliographies. It’s…

— Austin Kleon

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

— Sharon M. Draper

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

— Neil Gaiman

Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

— Maggie Stiefvater

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

— Zadie Smith

I love to get in the library and just spend days researching characters.

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

— Nick Flynn

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

— Tim Gunn

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

— Lady Bird Johnson

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

— John D'Agata

I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending.

— Girl Talk

“I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.”

— AnnaMarie Ralph

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

— Barack Obama

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

— Richard K. Morgan

“An evil librarian is taking over the school. He appears to be making my best friend his special evil library monitor.”

— Michelle Knudsen

I have a mini-library at home and I have begun reading books I'd purchased during my travels.

— Vivek