Library Quotes · Page 64

Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word.…

— Sue Townsend

Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort…

— Thighpaulsandra

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them,…

— Laurel Lea

“It smelled like a library – the initial whiff of something bitter, followed by the scent lingering in every book there –…

— Kimberly Krey

While the average person is home watching TV, the Leader Without a Title is in the gym getting stronger or at the…

— Robin Sharma

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense…

— Scott Turow

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on…

— Drew Carey

Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40…

— Rob Manuel

At Zappos, one of our core values is to Pursue Growth and Learning. In the lobby of our headquarters, we have a…

— Tony Hsieh

I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope…

— Candice Millard

“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book…

— Tim O'Brien

I found a 'lost' manuscript called the Book of Soyga that had once belonged to Queen Elizabeth I's court astrologer, John Dee,…

— Deborah Harkness

I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some…

— Chuck Klosterman

In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I…

— Alec Soth

“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all…

— John Bright

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the…

— Concha Buika

“If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully…

— James Billington

We now have in our hands—really, in our libraries—the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the…

— Julian Simon

“Children built snowmen in their front lawns, played in the yard of the public library. I would miss that old library. I…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the…

— Wanda Urbanska

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ...…

— Eva Le Gallienne

I remember that I used to get lots of books from the library, and 'Little Women' was one of them. And I…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Being attracted to my own sex was as much part of who I was as being short or blonde or drawn to…

— Sandi Toksvig

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will…

— Tony Kushner

“I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a…

— Susan Crandall

Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three…

— Ray Bradbury

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't have a dubstep library, so I asked fans to send me a list of songs they'd like me to spin.…

— B-Real

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to…

— Marian Burros

I never imagined I'd go into acting, but I always loved drama, and when I was 16, I discovered the Library Theatre…

— Lesley Nicol

Between the poor and any appreciation for modern science stands a wall made of failed schools, defunded libraries, denied opportunities, and the…

— John Michael Greer

“I mention the library only as a last resort. I recommend buying your own books... They can be spiced with underlines, question…

— Kató Lomb

“It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is…

— Brandt Legg

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music,…

— Charles Gates Jr

“Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly…

— L.R.Knost

Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value…

— Robert Dallek

“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait." ( About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling , New…

— Anatole Broyard

I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the…

— Michael Sims