Found Quote by Barbara Pym Download Open image “Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there...” — Barbara Pym ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Found Library Littles Odd People Public library Saws Upset
The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
I got hit by the bug of reading - not via a person, but via the one-room library in our small town. I remember… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
It reminds me of like this pathetic friend that everybody had when they were a little kid who would let you borrow any of… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users. — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there. — Hong Chau 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 is libraries… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
“She had been feeling that things were pretty desperate if one found oneself talking about and almost quoting Matthew Arnold to comparative strangers, though… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“He is a brilliant man, said Miss Doggett. She helped him a good deal in his work, I think. Mrs. Bonner says that she… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“One wouldn't believe there could be so many people, and one must love them all.” — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“-Hoy no pareces tú misma- dijo él en tono censurador-. Espero que no haya sido el Nuits Saint Georges. -Ya sabes que no estoy… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“Jane felt that he would write from the depths of a wretchedness that would not necessarily be insincere because its outward signs were so… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“You lose your sense of perspective when you get too close, and the charm goes.” — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“I hope you don’t mind tea in mugs,’ she said, coming in with a tray. ‘I told you I was a slut.” — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“However romantically ill John might look, it seemed that he had nothing worse than an unromantic cold.” — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how… — Anton Zeilinger Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image