Library Quotes · Page 40

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

— Germaine Greer

“Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism." [ Libraries on the Front Lines , ALA interview 2011]”

— Neil Gaiman

Eight was about the age I was when I realized that people actually produced books, they didn't just spring out of the…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Libraries are a kind of communism which the least revolutionary among us may be proud to advocate.”

— Joseph Chamberlain

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of…

— Bill Gates

Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.

— Alan Bennett

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer.

— Mark Dever

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

— Deb Caletti

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence…

— Sarah Jessica Parker

Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as…

— Alberto Manguel

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.…

— Rita Dove

I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I…

— Carolyn Wells

“A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number…

— Vicki Myron

“They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few…

— David Davis

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want…

— Piers Anthony

I've found that in an adult reference book, if it's not a subject I'm interested in, I just can't get into it.…

— James Holzhauer

Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still…

— Harper Lee

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library…

— Thomas Jefferson

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a…

— Walker Percy

One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up…

— Jose Parla

Everything started with my mom. When I was five, she asked me if I wanted to sign up for soccer, but I…

— Lindsey Horan

There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders…

— Libba Bray

“Everything is 'smart' now. The library cataloging system is smart, classification and indexing information entered into a uniform online database. People wept…

— Christopher Sorrentino

Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of…

— Gail Buckley

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.

— Alan Garner

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

— Nicholson Baker

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

— Matthew Lesko

“exceptions are one of the most common sources of surprise and frustration with third-party libraries.”

— Anonymous

“All my life, the library has always been one of my favorite places to go. (Larry Brown: A Writer's Life by Jean…

— Larry Brown

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

— Ray Bradbury

“but a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently.”

— Elizabeth McCracken

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

— Terry Pratchett

You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

— Ben Affleck

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

— Ray Bradbury

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

— Robert Bloch

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.

— Stephen D. Krashen

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

— Milan Kundera

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

— Stephen Fry

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.

— Doris Lessing

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living?…

— Stephen King