Quote by Alberto Manguel Download Open image ““Libraries are not, never will be, used by everyone.”” — Alberto Manguel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Libraries are not, or at least should not be, engines of productivity. If anything, they should slow people down and seduce them with the… — Barbara Fister Copy Share Image
“Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.” — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“Libraries always remind me that there are good things in this world.” — Lauren Ward Copy Share Image
“I like libraries. It’s a comfort that knowledge can be saved for so long.” — Scarlet Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
“It is likely that libraries will carry on and survive, as long as we persist in lending words to the world that surrounds us,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the… — James Billington Copy Share Image
“Libraries were havens for everyone, he might've told her, not just the clean and productive.” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“For a child a library needs to be round the corner. And if we lose local libraries it is children who will suffer.” — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Then one day, from the window of a car (the destination of that journey is now forgotten), I saw a billboard by the side… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“I have no feeling of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Ljubav je imbecilna izvesnost pomoću koje naša fantazija stvara verodostojnu utvaru.” — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
