The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I found a book in my elementary school library when I was ten called 'All about You' which was a book on… — Steven Gundry Copy Share Image
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own. — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“But only at Antquarium did I feel a sense of what the library at Alexandria might have been: an accumulation of evidence… — Amy Halloran Copy Share Image
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. — William Osler Copy Share Image
We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances.… — David Castle Copy Share Image
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries.… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle.… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our… — Haruki Murakami 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
“He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open… — Chris Adrian Copy Share Image
“The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
One time, the Library of Congress was giving books to local libraries around the country on Islam. The library of a guy… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month? — Frank Westheimer Copy Share Image
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
“One day, she ventured to the palace library and was delighted to find what good company books could be.” — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library. — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
“Library. It's where we lock up all those books before they start giving kids ideas," I said solemnly. "Very dangerous place to… — Scott Tracey Copy Share Image
I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I'm really excited about public libraries that are redefining themselves as free learning centers. — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
