Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl. — Molly Harper
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries — Bjarne Stroustrup
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that… — Elizabeth Kolbert
The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes. — Dana Stabenow
Few things would gratify me as much as a rediscovered respect for things belonging to others. Not abusing the property of others (or that of… — P. M. Forni
It's all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer,… — Russell Simmons
I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. — Ray Bradbury
I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life. — Elizabeth Gilbert
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read. — Jorge Luis Borges
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime. — Terence McKenna
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be… — Herman Wouk
Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems… — John Jakes
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down. — Philip Pullman
Why buy a book when you can join a library? — Ricky Gervais
The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are,… — Kate Mosse
With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities. — Bill Gates
One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you… — Marcus Samuelsson
Libraries are the pride of the city. — Amy Tan
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. — Jane Austen
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the… — Samuel Johnson
He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a… — Tommy Cooper
The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort… — Albert Payson Terhune
I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. — Maya Angelou

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