Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. — Audrey Niffenegger
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in… — John Kennedy Toole
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath… — Kurt Vonnegut
He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child… — Kurt Vonnegut
Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. — Roger Ebert
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. — Mark Twain
There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. — Ray Bradbury
I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library. — William Shakespeare
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping… — Doris Lessing
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing… — Nick Hornby
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out… — David Foster Wallace
What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? — Ray Bradbury
Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is… — Finley Peter Dunne
When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian. — Joan Bauer
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. — Barbara Kingsolver
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. — Elizabeth Kostova
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my… — Virginia Woolf
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… — Daniel Handler
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and… — Hunter S. Thompson
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.… — Bertrand Russell
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different… — Albert Einstein
As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp… — Raymond Chandler
The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library. — Ashleigh Brilliant

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