Library Quotes · Page 35

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

— Vance Havner

I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk…

— Mitch Hedberg

“Every piece of you is a living library of creation. The deeper I look, the more I see.”

— Atalina Wright

I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your…

— Andre Braugher

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

— Anonymous

“Life is like a library: you can borrow whichever experiences you deem pleasant, and easily return those that bring you pain.”

— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.

— David Harsanyi

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected…

— Rabindranath Maharaj

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except…

— Jose Saramago

There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding…

— Carrie Jones

I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out…

— Terry Pratchett

I went to the library - and this was before the Internet - and I searched for a career that was creative,…

— Jamie Hyneman

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily…

— David McCullough

“Many of my friends think I read books all day and alphabetize the shelves. Well, sometimes I do alphabetize shelves. But more…

— Jack Canfield Carrie O'Maley

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the…

— Martin Lewis Perl

Talk about the sickest dunk, we had one guy throw it off the library which was about 60-feet away, back onto the…

— Darryl Dawkins

“Desire overwhelmed me once she had gone. But it was not a desire for Homer. I had to return to the library.…

— Christine Aziz

Dad told Uncle Seth not to screw things up,” she informed me as we washed our hands. “He said even if Uncle…

— Richelle Mead

In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The…

— Vartan Gregorian

My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's…

— Janet Fitch

Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on…

— Andrei Lankov

One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there…

— Tom Peters

Do not use intoxicants of any sort. We who should be serving the world should not ruin our health by smoking and…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“[D]on't ever apologise to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there…

— Neil Gaiman

Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.

— Nicholas Sparks

The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

— Herbert Hoover

“The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

— Alberto Manguel

Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed?

— Arthur D. Hlavaty

Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history.

— Marianne Williamson

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

— Anonymous

Some people are made to be famous and do photo shoots, but I'm not one of them. I'm more comfortable in the…

— Georgia Toffolo

If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?

— Joan Bauer

I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

— Ray Bradbury

“I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives.”

— Gina Sheridan

Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage…

— Newell Dwight Hillis

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

— William Shakespeare

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

— Henry David Thoreau

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

— Michael Dirda

What saved me from total academic failure and overwhelming ennui, was my love of libraries and all they encompass.

— Hilary Farr