Library Quotes · Page 43

It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by…

— Gareth Roberts

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

— Jonathan Taylor Thomas

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

— Alan Bennett

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

— Dolly Parton

“You will never find me in trouble. You will find me in the library. If you can remember where that is.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

“I'm standing in the middle of the greatest arson ever. A library. And I'm not going down without a fight.”

— Nicki Chapelway

The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.

— Tony Robbins

Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.

— Sherwood Smith

The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and…

— Tessa Jowell

“There’s a vast fraternity of record collectors, and the record store was their hub. There was not a lot of information on…

— Gary Calamar

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are…

— George Weah

So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?" "No, I didn't…

— Gary D. Schmidt

There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in…

— Eric Ripert

“Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules…

— Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most…

— Washington Irving

I was a little tomboy, growing up, but we had to go to the library every weekend if we wanted some form…

— Isabela Moner

One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and…

— J. C. R. Licklider

“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

“Up steps, three, six, nine, twelve! Slap! Their palms hit the library door. * * * They opened the door and stepped…

— Ray Bradbury

[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of…

— Stephen Fry

One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

— Richelle Mead

You remind me of a library book, because I always want to check you out.

— Anonymous

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

— Richard K. Morgan

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

— Barack Obama

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

— AnnaMarie Ralph

“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

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

— Joanna Trollope

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

— Diana Wynne Jones

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

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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

— Zadie Smith

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

— Lady Bird Johnson

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

— Tim Gunn

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

— Nick Flynn

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

— Girl Talk