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Library Quotes by Daniel Handler
- A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying…
- A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding…
- There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
- If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good…
- The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
- Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and…
- The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.
- They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.
- Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be…
- When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world…
- With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.
More Library Quotes
- Ji-li's deeply moving story should be on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the face of adversity and her… — Nien Cheng
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough
- A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you. — Daniel J. Boorstin
- It reminds me of like this pathetic friend that everybody had when they were a little kid who would let you borrow… — Jerry Seinfeld
- Alliances are crucial to success in the political sphere. However, if we are to approach other organizations to propose alliances for the… — Arthur Curley
- Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows… — Chris Wooding
- If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn
- Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings