Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
“Libraries were havens for everyone, he might've told her, not just the clean and productive.” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge! — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more… — David Mandel Copy Share Image
I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To love books mean to love Libraries, to love libraries mean to love knowledge and to love knowledge mean to love creator.” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
“Guards are of no use in a library. Oh, how wrong he was! Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.” — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect. Nothing more threatening to a… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and… — Guy Browning Copy Share Image
“Believe it or not working in libraries is very similar to working on an ambulance or a fire truck. You take care… — Lori Reed Copy Share Image
“The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts,… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“ Una casa senza libreria è una casa senza dignità, — ha qualcosa della locanda, — è come una città senza librai,… — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to… — Arthur Curley Copy Share Image
“A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Mr. O'Donnell was at the library counter, performing the sort of grim rituals librarians perform with index cards and stumpy pencils and… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
“I don’t think that the definition of library has changed. Libraries have never been repositories solely of books. In Alexandria for instance,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I finally found my way to the Really Restricted Section, where they keep the kind of books most scholars aren't even supposed… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
“One of the powerful functions of a library — any library — lies in its ability to take us away from worlds… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
“When I was his age, and even today, when it comes to books and libraries, too much is never enough” — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
“Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I don't want to see libraries close; I want to find local solutions that will make them sustainable. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
“Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulation!” — Karl Kesel Copy Share Image
“The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?” — Lia Mills Copy Share Image
Some of my best moments have been in friends' libraries. They give you a sense of quiet, well-being and order that a… — David Linley Copy Share Image
“These people decry government overreach as they try to use the government to dictate what citizens can and cannot read.” — Amanda Jones Copy Share Image
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
“To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical… — R. David Lankes Copy Share Image
“A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
“Libraries and Prison are playing same role but both places give you some lesson in your life.” — Abid Hussain Library Officer Copy Share Image
I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
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