“Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
“A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
“Now take my hand and hold it tight. I will not fail you here tonight, For failing you, I fail myself And… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be "responsive to their patrons."… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable… — Franklin Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer,… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later discovering Barbra Streisand by listening to her albums at… — Billy Porter Copy Share Image
I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
the grim, grand African forests are like a great library, in which, so far, I can do little more than look at… — Mary Kingsley Copy Share Image
There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
“Books and stories are lifelines, and libraries house those lifelines, making them available to all. They are important not just for the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Art shouldn't be locked away in galleries and libraries and books. Art should be for everybody and not just art buffs, historians… — Julian Beever Copy Share Image
For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
My first encounter with James was when I was seventeen. My brother brought home from the public library a science fiction anthology,… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
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