“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.” — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling?… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“In New York City real estate parlors took your money and lied to you, drug addicts relieved themselves in plain sight, and… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
If you want to purchase and view a book at your local bookstore or public library, you should have the right to… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free. — Siva Vaidhyanathan Copy Share Image
Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have a mother who took me to the library - the public library - twice a week,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in… — William Lyon Phelps 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
Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort.Books are the one element in which I am… — Harold Laski 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 doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.'… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life.… — John Fante 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
“Unlike my father, who blindly churned out one canvas after another, I had real ideas about the artistic life. Seated at my… — David Sedaris 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
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means… — Lewis Henry Steiner Copy Share Image
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things,… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!” — Vera Brosgol Copy Share Image
“Let's go downtown," Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the… — Marion Jensen Copy Share Image
As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public… — Raymond Chandler 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
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries. — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there... — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“CHAPTER 10: For questions about librarians featured in erotic literature, you will find absolutely nothing in the public library.” — Josephine Carr Copy Share Image
On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization. — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“Get that Property Of Whitford Public Library stamp and stamp it right on his forehead. Then cross out the library's name and… — Shannon Stacey Copy Share Image
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