Animal Quote by Anonymous

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries…

— Paula Poundstone

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation…

— Timothy Healy

Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world.…

— Bella Bathurst

“Libraries are zoos for books.”

— Craig Douglas Dworkin

I think libraries give the feeling that people are there to work. It's a little bit like an artist's colony in the sense that…

— Stephen McCauley

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

— Ken Jennings

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't…

— Michael Moore

“People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries - as if the words are synonymous with boredom or timidity. But isn't that where the…

— Justine Picardie

It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without…

— Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on…

— Paul Auster

I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and…

— Willy Russell

Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will…

— Ben Macintyre