There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Why are you putting on lip gloss, my daughter?” Dad asked. “Trip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
“In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through… — Cheyenne McCray Copy Share Image
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind… — Ray Bradbury 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
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the… — David Small Copy Share Image
Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
