Libraries Quotes

367 quotes by 289 authors

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. — Huston Smith
The retreat and disappearance of glaciersâ€”there are only 160,000 leftâ€”means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by… — Gretel Ehrlich
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature. — George Dyer
More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. — Phyllis Schlafly
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after… — Sergey Brin
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then… — William O. Douglas
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. — Richard Russo
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing… — J. C. R. Licklider
Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. — Siri Hustvedt
Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out. — Thomas Lansing Masson
Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. — Laura Bush
Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may… — Esther Vilar
The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille
Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library… — August Bier
Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture. — Vartan Gregorian
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization… — Lawrence Clark Powell
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone… — Nicholas Meyer
The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame. — Matthew Lesko

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