I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between… — Helen McCrory Copy Share Image
The Internet is where we all go to for the first stop of information. It's not the library any more, it's the… — Theo Paphitis Copy Share Image
It looked the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed,' although it would be more honest to admit that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Here are my strong reservations about the wave of computer networks. They isolate us from one another and cheapen the meaning of… — Clifford Stoll Copy Share Image
People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough,… — Terry Pratchett 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
“No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“More than a building that houses books and data, the library has always been a window to a larger world--a place where… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Besides, Fi was convinced that instinct could determine a body's literary needs, just as physical cravings pointed to dietary shortfalls. She'd experienced… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the… — Bella Bathurst Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said,… — Nancy Reagan 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
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
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
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
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
Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“I lived in the royal library, among all the books." "You resided in a... library?" "There were suites inside and great balconies… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at… — David Davis Copy Share Image
“All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time… — Kathryn Magendie Copy Share Image
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, I borrowed a copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' from the mobile library. Democrats and Republicans were standing… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
One of the powerful functions of a library-any library-lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books,… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old… — John Callahan Copy Share Image
There are 10,000 books in my library, and it will keep growing until I die. This has exasperated my daughters, amused my… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
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