I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started… — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is… — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Know something about the world, and by this I mean the world outside of books. This might require joining the Marines, or… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
I read all the books on Fairfax in the British Library, did a lot of horse riding and studied military tactics of… — Dougray Scott Copy Share Image
“As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
Since our online libraries are so extensive, we think we can make all the right decisions about our personal health and well-being… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
For the mind and the imagination, bookstores aren't enough, college courses aren't enough, the Internet isn't enough. Those resources are all governed… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children?… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“You don’t write a book when God called you to publish a library! You don’t plant a tree when God send you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for kids nowadays, because in the majority of schools across the country, the arts have been eliminated from the… — David Small Copy Share Image
Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled… — Richelle Mead 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
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
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
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Think of a public library, worth more for those who cannot afford numerous books. Think of a public waterway or fishing ground.… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the… — Rachel Simon Copy Share Image
When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those… — Jose Ortega y Gasset 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
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be "responsive to their patrons."… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I recall that I had a terrible struggle finding anything antireligious in the school libraries.But many years later my family moved into… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises,… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
