I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a… — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
Kissinger's monopoly on this historical record has driven many scholars to distraction. Groups of lawyers, scholars, journalists and archivists have used pronunciamento,… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction -… — Anthony Geary Copy Share Image
The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Don't miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And don't make it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League,… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
“I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I didn't think about being king,” he said, his voice hoarse. Eddis stared. “Your capacity to land yourself in a mess because… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Most people would say they live with an internal angst that they can't always put their finger on. This is because the… — Tricia Rhodes Copy Share Image
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up. Amelia:… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of… — Carl Sagan 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
Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“So you go in a library, and you pull a book off the shelf, and you open it, and what are you… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My dad was a very unconventional Asian American man. He was very much not quiet, not shy, not passive. If he had… — Ali Wong Copy Share Image
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
This is a great idea,” said Trey. “You kids should totaly go see that play. Make a whole day of it. Grab… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it—because… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our… — Chrystos Copy Share Image
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There aren't many children's books about black characters that are just going on adventures. My library has over 2,000 children's books in… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
The library profession is ... a profession that is informed, illuminated, radiated by a fierce and beautiful love of books. A love… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
“Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and by nightfall more than sixty had… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“That would make it the fifth time since I'd started working at the university that I'd thrown someone out of one of… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
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