Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still… — Louis Nizer Copy Share Image
The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library,"… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“My brother, being an English gentleman, possesses a library in all his houses, though he never opens a book. This is called… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end,… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I remember one letter from a girl in a midwestern town who read one of my books and thought she had discovered… — J. P. Donleavy Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
“I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out for themselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
As a child, I loved to read books. The library was a window to the world, a pathway to worlds and people… — Ed Bradley Copy Share Image
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school,… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be… — John Waters Copy Share Image
“The Parkchester Library was my haven. To thumb through the card catalog was to touch an infinite bounty, more books than I… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
Life in a small town is like an intricately plotted novel, and even though I had read every book in the public… — Maxine Cheshire Copy Share Image
During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with… — Philip Emeagwali Copy Share Image
... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
Libraries have a special role to play in our knowledge economy. Your institutions have been and should be a place where parents… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t… — Sacha Guitry Copy Share Image
You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Again, I don't fully understand my emotion response to the library or trust it. It was the site of a series of… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in… — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“There is a canyon within a reasonable distance of nearly every school in the city," [Elaine Brooks] pointed out. What an exciting… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
“But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for… — Simon Montefiore Copy Share Image