Library Quotes

1426 Library quotes by 907 unique authors

The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read — Tom Clancy
For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head. — Benjamin Franklin
Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books… — Umberto Eco
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… — Daniel Handler
I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my… — Keith Donohue
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed. — Anita Brookner
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated… — Virginia Woolf
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all… — Ian Mcewan
I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now… — Alex Haley
I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed… — Eudora Welty
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. — John Lubbock
Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now… — Jack Kerouac
Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library… — Frank Zappa
I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed,… — Kim Stanley Robinson
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. — Shelby Foote
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling… — Betty Smith
As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. — Erma Bombeck
Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a third of ‘em. But I’m going… — John Green
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call… — Orson Scott Card
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice… — Michel Foucault
An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely,… — Jeremy Narby
Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl… — Garth Nix
There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers. — Daniel Handler
If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good… — Daniel Handler
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at… — Haruki Murakami

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