Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book.… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“A teenager deserves a library that recognizes reality. He needs an information source and study area that does not impose arbitrary, crippling… — Anne Osborn Copy Share Image
Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often.… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Every day, librarians enforce copyright policies that we may disagree with and that, in some ways, run contrary to the values of… — R. David Lankes Copy Share Image
Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about.… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
“There, I said to myself, are the reasons for the silence and darkness that surround the library: it is the preserve of… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, all… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication.… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
I am here because libraries and museums are singular and important institutions with unique contributions to make to our nation. But more… — Robert Cecil Martin Copy Share Image
You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library—subway maps, bus maps, and regular… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
I was trying. I was crawling. I was coming into myself. I was trying to in some ways get beyond - what… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way… — Jay Parini Copy Share Image
The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
Tea? At the beach? No time for luxuries, Holly. There is important work to be done.” He winked at Butler. “Are you… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The reason we didn't acquire WCW is an incoming, rotating door, new head of Turner at that time, took prime time television… — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
At Zappos, one of our core values is to Pursue Growth and Learning. In the lobby of our headquarters, we have a… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all… — John Bright Copy Share Image
The Kingsway Music Library was sort of a byproduct of all the creation I was doing. As creators, we kind of just… — Frank Dukes Copy Share Image
“I possessed nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that… — Alexandre Dumas 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
![“A teenager deserves a library that recognizes reality. He needs an information source and study area that does not impose arbitrary, crippling rules on him. His library should recognize that dignity and silence are not prior requisites to learning […] He would like, needs, and deserves for other…” quote by Anne Osborn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2eb/anne-osborn-113939_education_a-teenager-deserves-a-library-that-recog_1973421.jpg)
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