Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight-and Levi can't… — Rainbow Rowell
Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in… — Georges Perec
Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will mature when they… — Mordecai Richler
I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer. — Richard Russo
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning. — Scott Turow
I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from… — Charlie Kaufman
What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library… — Guillermo del Toro
The library is the temple of learning. — Carl T. Rowan
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries. — Adriana Trigiani
Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that when… — Alberto Manguel
I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case of… — Daniel Keyes
The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library. — George R. R. Martin
Ordered by subject, by importance, ordered according to whether the book was penned by God or by one of God's creatures, ordered alphabetically or by… — Alberto Manguel
People are living books. The real library of life is community. — Bryant H. McGill
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have… — John Thomas Sladek
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an… — Samuel Johnson
I taught myself more in the library than school taught me. — Terry Pratchett
Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all… — William Hazlitt
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. — Robert Bly
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached. — Judith Martin
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library.… — Stephen Leacock
You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can… — Ray Bradbury

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