Record stores are the hippest libraries. In these tired ole days of homogenized entertainment, where so much of the art of our… — Elizabeth Cook Copy Share Image
“Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular… — M.R. James Copy Share Image
“The library turned out to be a very pleasant place, but it was not the comfortable chairs, the huge wooden bookshelves, or… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Every child needs a safe place to fall - a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure… — Bill Harley Copy Share Image
“During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a source of knowledge and… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I think that it's not enough to do the little Band-Aid things of having celebrities come and read to children. Not that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There's no excuse for having a mental or creative block in sound. You can just go out and collect things in the… — Gary Rydstrom Copy Share Image
What I think people should realize is that programs like Social Security, programs like Medicare, programs like the Veterans Administration, programs like… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
People say it's a quiet flow, that it sounds like I'm in a library. That could have come from when I was… — Valee Copy Share Image
At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the… — Siri Hustvedt 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 I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
Read to your children Twenty minutes a day; You have the time, And so do they. Read while the laundry is in… — Richard Peck Copy Share Image
I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,… — Terry Tempest Williams 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 Delano Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Are you missing the library again?" Seth asked, startling her as he walked into the room. Kendra turned to face her brother.… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Don't miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And don't make it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“She took particular comfort in certain familiar sights and sounds that marked her day: the buzz of the fluorescent lights, the pale… — T.E.D. Klein Copy Share Image
The woman dashed up the staircase toward the library's main doors. Arriving at the top of the stairs, she grabbed the handle… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
When I won my way to the international science fair, I didn't want to embarrass myself. It was the first time I… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
As a fan, I hated most of 'The Day After Tomorrow' movie except for the part where Emmy Rossum and Jake Gyllenhaal… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League,… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
“Besides, Fi was convinced that instinct could determine a body's literary needs, just as physical cravings pointed to dietary shortfalls. She'd experienced… — Masha Hamilton Copy Share Image
I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Now, many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a… — John Donne Copy Share Image