She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said.… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
“A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Of course, the guests were also staring because they know of my relationship with Camille, and are wondering what we might be… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place… — Marion Dane Bauer Copy Share Image
The Bön texts are thousands of years old, and I am sure that not even 7 percent of what is still in… — Anne Klein Copy Share Image
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
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking… — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
In the pre-Internet age you had to find gay things - or things that were slightly radioactive with erotic interest. You had… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access… — Robert G. Vosper Copy Share Image
My mother was almost entirely responsible for my cultural education. She took me to the library once a week, and by the… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy,… — Gary Wolf Copy Share Image
I get asked a lot what books I recommend for a nursery, home library, etc., and I always tell parents to start… — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end… — Tom Glazer Copy Share Image
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“My dear," replied her husband, "I have two small favours to request. First, that you will allow me the free use of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library,… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept.… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I was that weird kid that checked out all of the non-fiction paranormal studies books from the library. I've always been fascinated… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
“They hauled books from the shelves, flipped through the pages, and tossed them to the floor until an entire library of legal… — Ariel Lawhon Copy Share Image
“Some believe that every library looks like a splendid cemetery of human thoughts and ideas. Could librarians be called grave-diggers? However that… — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling?… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
