We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when… — Katherine Moennig Copy Share Image
The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
“Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to… — Scott Tracey Copy Share Image
The Bodleian Library, next to the Sheldonian, is one of the great libraries of the world. As well as holding most of… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
“But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a flux of event and… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp,… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I was the kid who read a lot and who was academic, and who was more of an indoor person than an… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
“Mom always says you can solve most problems at the library, and there's a lady there who's my friend. We could ask… — Laurel Snyder Copy Share Image
I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there... — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
There will be natural propriety in using an eastern light for bedrooms and libraries, a western light in winter for baths and… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
We still need to hear more about things like water and wastewater infrastructure and community infrastructure, like local rinks and libraries. But… — Naheed Nenshi Copy Share Image
“To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the past and improve on the ideas and techniques… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
“Picture books build readers, Mr. Leon. Two missing books from our collection is like two missing bricks from a cathedral.” — Kristin O'Donnell Tubb Copy Share Image
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