Library Quotes · Page 54

“I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library.”

— AnnaMarie Ralph

My mum was a children's librarian, so I spent a lot of time in the library. My reading life, because of my…

— Eleanor Catton

“...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian…

— George MacDonald

A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them.

— Lois Ehlert

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

— Roger Rosenblatt

The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as…

— Robert Hughes

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go…

— Frank Zappa

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

— Alberto Manguel

One time, the Library of Congress was giving books to local libraries around the country on Islam. The library of a guy…

— Keith Ellison

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

— Michael Dirda

What better place to kill time than a library?

— Diane Setterfield

“No books!” I exclaimed. “How do you contrive to live here without them? if I may take the liberty to inquire. Though…

— Michaela MacColl

Again the early-morning sun was generous with it's warmth. All the sounds dear to a horseman were around me-the snort of the…

— Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions…

— Michio Kaku

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

— Diana Gabaldon

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this…

— John Redwood

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

— Rita Mae Brown

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

— Mark Foley

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

— Joanna Trollope

At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria…

— Nils Kjaer

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

— Jane Austen

Having a person of Dr. Berthiaume's calibre leading Library and Archives Canada will be a solid asset to the organization. His extensive…

— Shelly Glover

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

— Jonathan Zittrain

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of…

— Gilles Menage

When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music…

— Daniel Ek