Library Quotes · Page 61

My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books... and only three cookbooks.

— Sudha Murty

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

— Zadie Smith

We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but…

— William James

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

— Alberto Manguel

Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things…

— Mark Twain

There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card.

— Marc Brown

I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

— Virginia Woolf

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

— William Godwin

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in…

— Fran Lebowitz

It's one thing looking up your own book in a library, but imagine being able to look up your own word in…

— Alex Horne

A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.

— Orson Scott Card

The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

— Herbert Hoover

“I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in…

— Antoine De Jussieu

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

— Anonymous

I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything…

— John Mayer

Katie Paterson introduced the project [ Future Library ] to a handful of writers at a very fine international literary festival in…

— Sjon

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we…

— Steve Jobs

Three times a year, there's Strategicon convention, and I go for the board games. It happens Presidents Day, Labor Day, and Memorial…

— Rich Sommer

I've been in towns where there is no library, or where the library for the high school and the library for the…

— James W. Loewen

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the…

— Michael Caine

In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals,…

— Marilyn Johnson

A small number of choice books are sufficient.

— Voltaire

Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of…

— Edward Eager