In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository. — Marian Seldes Copy Share Image
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“A beautiful girl in the library whispered to herself, "I too peek from the book shelves, but I can't stare longer.” — Bhavik Sarkhedi Copy Share Image
“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas. — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
“I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the… — John Robert Lewis Copy Share Image
It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world." "And yet with… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common:… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they… — Brock Adams Copy Share Image
She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Lord Peter's library was one of the most delightful bachelor rooms in London. Its scheme was black and primrose; its walls were… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Three times a year, there's Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways,… — Enrique Penalosa Copy Share Image
You could tell from the books whether a library was meant for show or not. Books that were used had an open,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“Every time I step into this library I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.” — Marie de Sevigne Copy Share Image
What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl. — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
I have a library, and it's like I want to beat Belle on 'Beauty and the Beast' and have a better library… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries. — Douglas Brinkley Copy Share Image
If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library, — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed. — Elisabeth Marbury Copy Share Image
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.” — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
