Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I was always the person in our class who was fascinated by new plays. I would go to the library all the… — Joe Mantello Copy Share Image
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked… — Ron Santo Copy Share Image
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
What tends to happen is that people will go - they've got hot broth, you know, they've added some liquid to their… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable… — André Brink Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“Yes, a great library — a library as magnificent as this one — was a dangerous arsenal, one that kings and emperors… — Ross King Copy Share Image
Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
When it comes to the Federal Reserve, there's an awful lot of books out there; in my library, I bet I've got… — Bernard von NotHaus Copy Share Image
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I spent many, many hours in the stack at the University of Washington library just wandering around, when my dad was working,… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
“Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books. — George Gilfillan Copy Share Image
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The only thing I like about libraries is that people are encouraged to shut up. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
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