Library Quotes · Page 20

“Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

— John Waters

“Your library makes our small corner of the world feel big...”

— Belle (Beauty & The Beast

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

— Allen Ginsberg

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

— John Braine

I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

— Maya Angelou

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.

— Robertson Davies

“There is no problem that a library card can't solve.”

— Eleanor Brown

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

— Charles Spurgeon

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

— Samuel Smiles

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

— Richard Allington

If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done?

— Lily Tomlin

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

— Stephen King

“Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.”

— Peggy A. Borel

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

— Anonymous

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

— Vartan Gregorian

Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.

— Tom Duff

“The library in 2020 will be ruled by geeks. In my happy vision for the future, libraries are ruled by benign geek…

— Sarah Houghton

The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature…

— John Drane

You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling?…

— Bernie Sanders

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But…

— Nick Hornby

To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think…

— Rick Perry

Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming…

— Nicolas Chamfort

“It's a supernatural library filled with unfinished ghost stories, written by ghosts, where time has no meaning , and the Boogeyman wants…

— D.J. MacHale

What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

When I was coming to terms with my sexuality, I often felt like I needed to seek out sanctuary outside of my…

— Camille Perri

“A first-rate college library with a comfortable campus around it is a fine milieu for a writer. There is, of course, the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Dad told Uncle Seth not to screw things up,” she informed me as we washed our hands. “He said even if Uncle…

— Richelle Mead

In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The…

— Vartan Gregorian

“Desire overwhelmed me once she had gone. But it was not a desire for Homer. I had to return to the library.…

— Christine Aziz

“The Internet, however, is nothing like a library. Rather, it’s a giant repository where anyone can dump anything, from a first folio…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“John Armato, a Public relations executive, cherishes his growing Library of Candidates. When people ask him if he's actually read all those…

— Steve Leveen

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

— Maggie Stiefvater

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

— Kwame Dawes

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

— Robin Sharma

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

— Roger Rosenblatt

That awkward moment when you fart in the library.

— Anonymous

“I, that used to figure Paradise In the guise of a library”

— Jorge Luis Borges

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

— Rita Mae Brown

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

— Bernard Berenson