“So,” he said after a minute. “I was thinking that afterward if you’re up for it, we could check out the post… — Miyoko Hikiji Copy Share Image
Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
God hath given to mankind a common library, His creatures; to every man a proper book, himself being an abridgment of all… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Look at the way the walls curve,' Macey said, her gaze panning around the strangely shaped room. 'it's almost like...' 'The library,'… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Anyone who loves books the way Homer does, loves libraries, too. It doesn't matter if the library has fancy red leather chairs… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and take a deep breath, and like a gentle cloud the wonder of it all settles over me.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“You don’t write a book when God called you to publish a library! You don’t plant a tree when God send you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Do you ever hide books you've read over and over again because you're so sick of them?' 'Oh, definitely. When they ask… — Gina Sheridan Copy Share Image
For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children?… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't think about being king,” he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. “Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Most people would say they live with an internal angst that they can't always put their finger on. This is because the… — Tricia Rhodes Copy Share Image
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the… — David Small Copy Share Image
There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
Think of a public library, worth more for those who cannot afford numerous books. Think of a public waterway or fishing ground.… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
