In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“People loves Ideas I love books because Ideas can be found in books” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
“There wasn't a place I could think of that was more magical than a building bursting with books and stories and words...” — Lindsay Eland Copy Share Image
She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its essence, but that it was there .” — David Drake Copy Share Image
“My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search.” — Google.com Craig Silverstein (Director of Technology Copy Share Image
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
“But with each passing year, and each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether… — nick hornby Copy Share Image
Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining,’ it is the pursuit… — Alan Gibson Copy Share Image
“People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries…But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves,… — Justine Picardie Copy Share Image
No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Ah college years, those were the days. Pure freedom ... leaving home for the first time…the parties…” "What about the tutorials, the… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The woman at the desk was a university graduate, young, colourless, spectacled, and intensely disagreeable. She had a fixed suspicion that no… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Speaking of libraries: A big open-stack academic or public library is no small pleasure to work in. You're, say, trying to do… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
“My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“I do not understand people who will lustily throw $40,000 at the shiny red automobile of their choice, but well up with… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
“Of all the places I have walked into, libraries must be the most magical. Have you ever opened the cover of a… — Kimberly Long Cockroft Copy Share Image
“We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
“I like libraries. It’s a comfort that knowledge can be saved for so long.” — Scarlet Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
The only thing I like about libraries is that people are encouraged to shut up. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image