And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. — Cornelia Funke 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
“Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!” — George MacDonald 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
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. — Robert Bly 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
Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could… — Gennifer Flowers Copy Share Image
“Libraries are innately subversive institutions, born of the radical notion that every member of society deserves free, high-quality access to knowledge and… — Matt Finch Copy Share Image
Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this.… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“Libraries are very special spaces, spaces where people come together in separate but joint pursuits of knowledge, of learning. Libraries are the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“the chaos of the world that counted people as different levels of worthy, the Library served all equally. All genders, races, levels… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
When you know too much information and you acquire it too easily, you tend to either use it in disagreeable ways, out… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my… — John Jakes Copy Share Image
For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
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