In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
In my day the library was a wonderful place… We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary…… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices… The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
It wasn't that long ago that I was coming up, but it feels almost ancient that you had to go to the… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing… — Donalyn Miller Copy Share Image
You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. 'Cool flame tricks aside, there's no competition.' He lifted his eyebrow. 'Library wins?' 'Every single… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and… — E.B. White Copy Share Image
When Sondheim was visiting the Library of Congress, where the manuscript of 'Porgy and Bess' is housed, he was so overcome with… — Michael Feinstein Copy Share Image
Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Support your public library! It is a treasure and a legacy that will provide entertainment, information, a sense of community, and real… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it, something difficult… — Charles Finch Copy Share Image
We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year;… — Hal Varian Copy Share Image
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They (animals) are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled… — Gail Zappa Copy Share Image
“Oh, wow." "What do you think?" "I tried to imagine, but--I mean...it's so much more--" "Think it's large enough to keep you… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
I didn't know Penn was an Ivy League school - I didn't know what the Ivy League was. When I got in,… — Stacy Brown-Philpot Copy Share Image
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
When I am working a book, I go through my library and take a look through some of the great cartoonists of… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Please just look at those Indonesian cities: Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan... are there any other cities on earth, of that size, with such… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“The only way to make a library safe is to lock people out of it. As long as they are allowed to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel, holding books, accommodating their weight and breathing their dust, an abiding love. I trust them, in a way that I… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me. I breathe the morning air of the world while the scent… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image