Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books… To be in a… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books.… — Lorene Cary Copy Share Image
If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If you're rich, you can leave a library, a building, or a hospital wing. But writing leaves behind a visceral sense of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story.… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
“The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
Please just look at those Indonesian cities: Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan... are there any other cities on earth, of that size, with such… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
When I am working a book, I go through my library and take a look through some of the great cartoonists of… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“But we're a university! We have to have a library!" said Ridcully. "It adds tone . What sort of people would we… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
The reality is, if you go to the library and read biographies, thousands of people have changed, radically changed. St. Augustine was… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it,… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required… — Peter York Copy Share Image
“Library events scare me, as they provide refuge for local historians, fabulists, tellers of tall tales, historical reenactors, and even dream weavers.… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one,… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My music library is all over the place. I've got A$AP Rocky; I've got Billy Joel. I've got, like, Celine Dion albums… — Brendon Urie Copy Share Image
The tradition, particularly in old-school British detective things, is everybody's in the drawing room or the library, and they're all gathered, and… — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
“The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)... to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when I’m in a bookstore or a library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
The library would've cheered me up, most days. I loved the heavy oaken tables, the high walls stacked with books to the… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I never used to be able to work on the road, I was always strictly in the studio. But not everything's gotten… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic,… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
“I always made sure to put them back in the exact order in which I had found them, for fear of losing… — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image