My ideal beach house has bookshelves full of paperbacks that can tolerate a little sand, a DVD library that includes some Disney… — Mary Kay Andrews Copy Share Image
When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room." Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
“Libraries, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as I can remember I’ve been seduced by their… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious… — Rossiter Johnson 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
Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
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My other hobby, because I just love any job with a gavel, is auctioneer. And I so often have presided over charity… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
It has always been my experience that, whatever groupings I choose for my books, the space in which I plan to lodge… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the library books, or… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
My father had inklings of my cultural aspirations. He would take me to the library, things like that. But he wasn't one… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I went into the library and read about fast food and became amazed by all the stuff I didn't know. I learned… — Eric Schlosser 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
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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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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