With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious… — Rossiter Johnson 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
They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our… — Chrystos 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
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
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
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
For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“...he never so much as looks at me. He just sits there reading his old history books, that really gets me. I… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
I think all kids feel that their lives are tough, and that they've, been given an unfair shake for one reason or… — David Small Copy Share Image
It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and,… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“The room was as big as the Duke of Pardloe's library and had at least as many books, and yet the feeling… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an… — Max Delbruck 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
I feel like now if you're going to start a band you have to have an Instagram full of yourself looking a… — Babatunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better… — David Nasaw Copy Share Image
“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists." [… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The Bodleian Library, next to the Sheldonian, is one of the great libraries of the world. As well as holding most of… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
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