“I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism." [ Libraries on the Front Lines , ALA interview 2011]” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences. — William Osler Copy Share Image
“but a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently.” — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library. — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My dad was a very unconventional Asian American man. He was very much not quiet, not shy, not passive. If he had… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“That would make it the fifth time since I'd started working at the university that I'd thrown someone out of one of… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
“Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The library profession is ... a profession that is informed, illuminated, radiated by a fierce and beautiful love of books. A love… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
There aren't many children's books about black characters that are just going on adventures. My library has over 2,000 children's books in… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
“Libraries for me have always had a cathedral-like ambiance, a hushed sanctuary where learning is revered, where we the people elevate books… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Record stores are the hippest libraries. In these tired ole days of homogenized entertainment, where so much of the art of our… — Elizabeth Cook Copy Share Image
I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises,… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
Every child needs a safe place to fall - a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure… — Bill Harley Copy Share Image
“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular… — M.R. James Copy Share Image
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
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