Library Quotes · Page 10

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

I collect musical theatre anthologies. I have a whole library of them.

— Tituss Burgess

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

— Italo Calvino

The Library is the heart of the University.

— Charles William Eliot

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

— Amadou Hampate Ba

“I think I could use a library," she answered finally.”

— Michele Jaffe

“Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.”

— Patrick Ness

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

— Tom Peters

I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.

— Richard Russo

“Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.”

— Robert Arger

“Each book holds an experience and an adventure." [ Letters of Note ; Troy (MI, USA) Public Library, 1971]”

— Neil Armstrong

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in…

— Luke Mably

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

— Kate Mosse

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

— Joanne Harris

“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”

— Aphra Behn

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

— John Goodman

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is…

— Melvil Dewey

“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

“Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at…

— David Davis

I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw…

— Angelina Jolie

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

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

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly…

— Mark Twain

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

“But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and…

— John Williams

I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute…

— Eudora Welty

Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read their medical records, access their library accounts…

— Ralph Neas

As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during…

— Neil Gaiman

My daughter is reading various Young Adult vampire stuff, and I ask her, "Is there even a bad vampire in the story?"…

— Mike Mignola

There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to…

— Jeffrey Tambor

For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think…

— Karin Slaughter

“...he never so much as looks at me. He just sits there reading his old history books, that really gets me. I…

— Sophie Divry

“She's about to CLOSE UP THE LIBRARY!!!”

— It's a Wonderful Life

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

— Bernard Berenson

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

— Rita Mae Brown

“I, that used to figure Paradise In the guise of a library”

— Jorge Luis Borges

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

— Roger Rosenblatt

That awkward moment when you fart in the library.

— Anonymous

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

— Robin Sharma

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

— Kwame Dawes