To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The library will endure; it is the universe... We walk the corridors, searching the shelves and rearranging them, looking for lines of… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Books and stories are lifelines, and libraries house those lifelines, making them available to all. They are important not just for the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“No one ever goes to libraries. And they know ALL the good stuff. (Layla Miller)” — Craig Kyle and Chris Yost Copy Share Image
There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Sterling Memorial, the main library at Yale, had been built to resemble a Gothic cathedral, replete with stained glass, carved stonework, and… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I love e-books. I can carry the complete works of William Shakespeare around with me all the time. Just think about that.… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be "responsive to their patrons."… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better… — David Nasaw Copy Share Image
It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required… — Peter York Copy Share Image
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