Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For… — Walter Scott 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
“The library at Pemberley was as freely open to her as it was to Darcy, and with his tactful and loving encouragement… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“I was a prisoner, but the prison library was excellent. On one table in the corner, I found an e-reader with a… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector.… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the… — Michael Dumontier Copy Share Image
If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's… — Quiara Alegria Hudes Copy Share Image
For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in… — Avi Copy Share Image
For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel.… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?" "No, I didn't… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are… — George Weah Copy Share Image
“There’s a vast fraternity of record collectors, and the record store was their hub. There was not a lot of information on… — Gary Calamar Copy Share Image
The BBC's aim, along with schools, libraries and literacy groups, to involve more people in reading groups is an exciting idea and… — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
“Be careful. As if something’s going to jump us in a library.” “You might be surprised.” “What do you mean?” “You know… — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
“But the library - especially one so vast - is no mere cabinet of curiosities; it's a world, complete and uncompleteable, and… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Growing up, I would take out books from the school library and hide them in the hamper. I'd wait until my parents… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“There was nothing so dangerous to a king or an emperor as a book. Yes, a great library—a library as magnificent as… — Ross King Copy Share Image
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“The library spilled onto the floor and into the other rooms. Some books held up wobbly tables, others were literally swept under… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image