Whenever I am with a group of kids, I always ask them, 'How many of you know about the summer reading program… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“There is something nice about a library, isn't there?" Mr. Curtis said. He nodded and took in the familiar scenery. "The scent… — Ilana Waters Copy Share Image
“from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago, when I had been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
As a child, I felt that books were holy objects, to be caressed, rapturously sniffed, and devotedly provided for. I gave my… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for… — Polly Horvath Copy Share Image
I think people have a tendency to think of a writer as someone who wants to go take a walk, maybe case… — Roberto Orci Copy Share Image
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
“On to the library. And all through his time at the card catalog, combing the shelves, filling out the request cards, he… — Stephen Minkin Copy Share Image
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Always be reading. Go to the library. There’s magic in being surrounded by books. Get lost in the stacks. Read bibliographies. It’s… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“Now look ," snapped the Dean, "we've searched everywhere for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're… — Carla Hayden Copy Share Image
“STRASBOURG, October 14—Among the priceless volumes destroyed in the library here, was a full set of ABBOTT'S NAPOLEON histories. They were all… — Various Copy Share Image
In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
“It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
In the university library, we know when a book has been used in a class or put on reserve... or while it… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
What tends to happen is that people will go - they've got hot broth, you know, they've added some liquid to their… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
The only people who have never had a problem with me speaking in their venues are independent bookstores and libraries. Universities and… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and… — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
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