Library Quotes · Page 34

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

— Maxim Gorky

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books…

— Lisa Kleypas

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books…

— Jorge Luis Borges

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.

— John Allen Paulos

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

— Lynda Barry

Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?

— Richard Jefferies

Sometimes we'd just play acoustic guitar and try out the parts and make a library. We'd use a double cassette player and…

— Kate Pierson

...as parents, we have to find the time and the energy to step in and help our children love reading. We can…

— Barack Obama

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone -…

— Kate Mosse

I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in…

— William Lyon Phelps

The ability to have that mobility of music right now, where you can be in an airport with a sample library, it…

— Bonobo

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking…

— Laurie R. King

The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book,…

— Michel Foucault

Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle…

— Andrew Nikiforuk

At some point, sitting in the school library, during reading period, I looked up from my leopard print hardcover composition notebook where…

— Vera Nazarian

What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“A first-rate college library with a comfortable campus around it is a fine milieu for a writer. There is, of course, the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When I was coming to terms with my sexuality, I often felt like I needed to seek out sanctuary outside of my…

— Camille Perri

“What a great treasure can be hidden in a small, selected library! A company of the wisest and the most deserving people…

— Leo Tolstoy

“When I had no books and had to learn everything I needed off by heart, and when I had to hide what…

— Jeanette Winterson

“John Armato, a Public relations executive, cherishes his growing Library of Candidates. When people ask him if he's actually read all those…

— Steve Leveen

“The Internet, however, is nothing like a library. Rather, it’s a giant repository where anyone can dump anything, from a first folio…

— Thomas M. Nichols

He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.

— William Godwin

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

— Michael Dirda

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

— Jane Austen

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind…

— Rodney Dangerfield

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there...

— Barbara Pym

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.

— Peter Porter

I always said it was my ambition to have a library - I have one - and my dream was to have…

— Ann Widdecombe

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

— Naomi Alderman

A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

— Shmuel Niger

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I…

— Tom T. Hall

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.

— Desiderius Erasmus

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

— Alberto Manguel

“And what he didn't understand is that she was a library full of adventures in every corner and compartment.”

— Rand

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

— Josh Billings

It's one thing looking up your own book in a library, but imagine being able to look up your own word in…

— Alex Horne