Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same -… — Nicholson Baker
You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office… — Jay Chiat
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every… — Janet Fitch
Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that.… — Gennifer Flowers
It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop… — Linwood Barclay
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters. — Bram Cohen
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read… — Aravind Adiga
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of… — Adam Gopnik
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in… — Marc Andreessen
As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on… — Christopher Paul Curtis
I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many… — Seth Grahame-Smith
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all… — Tom T. Hall
But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't… — Hari Kunzru
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick. — Kate Mosse
We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I… — Dolly Parton
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the… — Alexander Kluge
Those who delve into the scriptural library … find that to understand requires more than casual reading or perusal—there must be concentrated study. … One… — Howard W. Hunter
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. — David Mamet
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only… — Katherine Paterson
Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I’m always picking up new books, and books of baby… — George R. R. Martin
Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. — Doris Kearns Goodwin
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast… — Arthur Schopenhauer
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries… — Sergey Brin
To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the… — Manly Hall

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