I collect books, and I love libraries. I love bookstores. And to me meeting a writer is important. And when I saw… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a… — Francis Darwin Copy Share Image
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League,… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Photography for me has been tremendously good, because I'm not a very sociable person. I'm happy reading or sitting in the library… — Stuart Franklin Copy Share Image
I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I remember, as a kid, I couldn't wait to get my library card, get my first book. There was a sphinx on… — Keith Hernandez Copy Share Image
A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred… — Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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