Libraries Quotes
367 quotes by 289 authors
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I've got libraries in my blood.
— Charlaine Harris
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libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's…
— Umberto Eco
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I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
— Virginia Woolf
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I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having…
— Alan Moore
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Libraries and demons," she muttered. "What is the attraction?
— Jana Oliver
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I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.
— Haruki Murakami
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Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League, everything would be…
— Sarah Strohmeyer
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Poor people have big TV's. Rich people have big libraries.
— Jim Rohn
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I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.
— Ken Jennings
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...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.
— Jim C. Hines
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If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of…
— Carl Sagan
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Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)
— Neil Gaiman
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The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.
— Daniel Handler
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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 are…
— Paula Poundstone
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All that is good in our history is gathered in libraries. At this moment, Plato is down there at the library waiting for us. So…
— Will Durant
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Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right.…
— Jasper Fforde
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Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.
— Joanne Harris
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The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we have. It's the…
— Caitlin Moran
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Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for…
— John F. Kennedy
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