I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there... — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old. — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries. — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
I always said it was my ambition to have a library - I have one - and my dream was to have… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I… — Tom T. Hall Copy Share Image
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
“every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an infinite… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Well," he said, "I say, now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the… — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
I think most people would like that: probably comes in about ninety percent. They see their public works crumbling, services inadequate, they… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the… — Alexander Kluge Copy Share Image
“Wherever I live, the library becomes my second home. Walking through the doors, I know that there are books calling to me… — Wendy Jones Copy Share Image
I think that it's not enough to do the little Band-Aid things of having celebrities come and read to children. Not that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a source of knowledge and… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Every child needs a safe place to fall - a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure… — Bill Harley Copy Share Image
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“The library turned out to be a very pleasant place, but it was not the comfortable chairs, the huge wooden bookshelves, or… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular… — M.R. James Copy Share Image
A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. — Shmuel Niger Copy Share Image
I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your… — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
“Every piece of you is a living library of creation. The deeper I look, the more I see.” — Atalina Wright Copy Share Image
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
“Life is like a library: you can borrow whichever experiences you deem pleasant, and easily return those that bring you pain.” — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana Copy Share Image
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected… — Rabindranath Maharaj Copy Share Image
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It's one thing looking up your own book in a library, but imagine being able to look up your own word in… — Alex Horne Copy Share Image
One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
“And what he didn't understand is that she was a library full of adventures in every corner and compartment.” — Rand Copy Share Image
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Spiritual wisdom is now available to everyone, disseminated to the masses as never before in world history. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed? — Arthur D. Hlavaty Copy Share Image
