“Someone has said of books that they are our 'amplest heritages' of thought, and so they are. That doesn't necessarily mean that… — Mary Virginia Provines Copy Share Image
The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired. — Milton Berle 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
I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that… — Robert Dawson Copy Share Image
When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In a library, you can find small miracles and truth, and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one… — Bill Mechanic Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
“Until one morning, one of the coldest mornings of the year, when I came in with the book cart and found Jean… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
When I went to university, I got work experience at my local radio station, and I used to spend hours in what… — Edith Bowman Copy Share Image
Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My dad was a very unconventional Asian American man. He was very much not quiet, not shy, not passive. If he had… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and… — Simeon Strunsky Copy Share Image
I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken… — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image