Library Quotes · Page 101

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

— Steven Moffat

For a whole year in elementary school, when the class marched down to the school library every week, I would refuse to…

— Robin Sloan

[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of…

— Stephen Fry

I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library.

— Jacob Bannon

Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others…

— Anonymous

“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or…

— Francis Bacon

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has…

— Brewster Kahle

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

— Luanne Rice

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected…

— Rabindranath Maharaj

“We each contribute our own book to the great library of humanity.”

— Steve Maraboli

You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it.

— Rush Limbaugh

The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By…

— Haruki Murakami

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

— Norman Cousins

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

— Dave Sitek

“There is no problem that a library card can't solve.”

— Eleanor Brown

I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life…

— Karin Slaughter

“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just…

— Alan Bennett

This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

— Richard de Bury

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a…

— Groucho Marx

“The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at…

— Jules Verne

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

— Audrey Niffenegger

The access to information the web provides is both daunting and exciting. Information that was once secreted away in library stacks is…

— Alice Roberts

“The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;”

— David Mitchell

“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read…

— Kurt Vonnegut