“In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp,… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go… — Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Copy Share Image
“The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking… — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and… — Esther Vilar Copy Share Image
I remember, in school during English lessons, I would ask the teacher what were the most difficult books to read, and when… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One summer I was homeless in L.A., when I was about fifteen, and I used to go to the library to get… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library:… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
“I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close… — Bill Harley Copy Share Image
Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
As Mono matures, people will begin to use it to write desktop components that take advantage of all the hard work thats… — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as… — Brewster Kahle Copy Share Image
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth… — John Alfred Langford Copy Share Image
I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of… — Edward Eager Copy Share Image
You became a reader because you saw and heard someone you admired enjoying the experience, someone led you to the world of… — Jim Trelease Copy Share Image
