Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story.… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books.… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“There is nothing,” Naudé wrote, “that renders a Library more recommendable, than when every man finds in it that which he is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a… — Francis Darwin Copy Share Image
If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do.… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“The Los Angeles Public Library provides free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every… — Los Angeles Public Library Mission Statement Copy Share Image
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I stayed in the library, crushed breathless by the smoldering power of all those words – many of them unfathomable – until… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist texts on the bookshelves at the university library… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I… — Gillian Roberts Copy Share Image
The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
“Celia Bowen sits at a desk surrounded by piles of books. She ran out of space for her library some time ago,… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Don't play games with me! You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor,… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
The web can be a fast trip to the library, giving you immediate access to a government report, or it can filter… — Ben Schott Copy Share Image
“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
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