A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“The library spilled onto the floor and into the other rooms. Some books held up wobbly tables, others were literally swept under… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people,… — Jay Chiat Copy Share Image
Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
“There was nothing so dangerous to a king or an emperor as a book. Yes, a great library—a library as magnificent as… — Ross King Copy Share Image
“Most people enter a library and don’t hear a thing. Eerie silence. I stand between the shelves and hear ten thousand conversations… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
I plan to live on campus in a dormitory and to do all the things any other student of the law school… — Medgar Evers Copy Share Image
“In a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
I know the American Library Association has models for working with the poor. They do have that, and I think that we… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“I was a prisoner, but the prison library was excellent. On one table in the corner, I found an e-reader with a… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
“Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
I'm a big researcher. I love libraries and archives and I have a huge National Geographiccollection. I have a good amount of… — Xaviera Simmons Copy Share Image
“In college I retreated to the library. I have always loved libraries - the quiet, the smell, the expectation of imminent discovery.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp,… — Robert Cormier 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 D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans...… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Then he discovered the library’s collection of agriculture books, which included works by Sir Albert Howard and Rudolf Steiner. “I read them… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
I was that kid with the glasses and the hungry expression who haunted every library book sale and used bookstore in town:… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Public libraries are critical learning centers for New Mexicans that bring communities together, especially in our rural regions that depend on library… — Ben Ray Lujan Copy Share Image
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No matter how wild the winds or rough the seas of life, libraries stand ready, beaming their reliable lights, guiding us toward… — Nancy Thayer Copy Share Image
![“I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of the John Hay Library, you have all of Lovecraft's archives. And messing around in there, I noticed, I said, what are these paintings? And the librarian told me, "Well, those…” quote by Paul Laffoley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b7e/paul-laffoley-7077_archives_i-mean-these-are-really-dedicated-people_1355532.jpg)
