All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
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My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“True,' I said, amazed. Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or devine, that lie outside books.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I was fired from my first job in New York. I was just out of school, doing the Welsh play, 'The Corn… — Barbara Barrie Copy Share Image
The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
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“...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“PAPER TOWERS The library was on the second floor of the House, not far from my room. It had two floors—the first… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
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Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves?… — Verlyn Klinkenborg Copy Share Image
The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.”… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I don't have that many days left," he said as we sat together in the library. "Why would I want to spend… — Jacqueline Kelly Copy Share Image
Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent.… — Ben Macintyre Copy Share Image
“Well, when it became obvious that magic was going to wreck the computer networks, people tried to preserve portions of the Internet.… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
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The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Let's say I was like, "I'm going to write a book this year," which I'm not. Let's just say that was it.… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
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