“Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.” — Mary Virginia Provines Copy Share Image
How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars. — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
The only thing I like about libraries is that people are encouraged to shut up. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“But only at Antquarium did I feel a sense of what the library at Alexandria might have been: an accumulation of evidence… — Amy Halloran Copy Share Image
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. — William Osler Copy Share Image
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since… — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right… — Mike Posner Copy Share Image
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were… — Christine Quinn Copy Share Image
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often.… — Lois Lowry 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
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
“Steadily, the room shrank, till the book thief could touch the shelves within a few small steps. She ran the back of… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Learning is available at the library for free; under a tree with a dog-eared paperback; at a job with a boss who… — Michael Ellsberg Copy Share Image
But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
