I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of… — S. R. Ranganathan Copy Share Image
I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library. — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down. — Mark Plotkin Copy Share Image
A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“I find that when I come out of the library I’m in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_education3.htmlgqDWEHxuOJyvI5s2.99 — Zahid Abas Copy Share Image
In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Some of the best memories of my childhood that I have are the times that I played hooky from school so I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The library companies have made it so that music is so cheap to license. They do sound-alikes of every band, and it… — Brian Reitzell Copy Share Image
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
When I figured that I could do anything if I was simply methodical about it. I went to the library - and… — Jamie Hyneman Copy Share Image
When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to… — Arthur Curley Copy Share Image
I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things,… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
“The library is a whispering post. You don't need to take a book off a shelf to know there is a voice… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library. — Ashleigh Brilliant Copy Share Image
In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession. — John Bright Copy Share Image
Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being. — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
“After all, she understood people so well, as well as Fredrick understood his library.” — Sarah Holman Copy Share Image
In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“She might ban me from the library." "The marvelous thing about libraries is that their contents can be easily moved.” — Alissa Johnson Copy Share Image
Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I have a passion for libraries. They are potentially real community centers. — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“At its loftiest, a library's goal is to keep as many minds as possible in the game ...” — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
“Virginia Wolf once said, “I ransack libraries and find them full of sunken treasure.” — Lili Valente Copy Share Image
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. — Richard Russo Copy Share Image