Library Books Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids. — Cornelia Funke
The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed,… — Sherman Alexie
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial… — Julie Burchill
But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after… — Sergey Brin
Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then… — William O. Douglas
Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not… — Sherman Alexie
Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land, as the sower sows his wheat-field. — Horace Mann
As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a… — Alan Bradley
Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices… — Laurel Lea
I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library. — Jorge Luis Borges
One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new… — Amos Bronson Alcott
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. — Cornelia Funke
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out. — Joan Collins
I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders. — Mark Foley
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption… — Thomas Jefferson
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. — Elizabeth Kostova
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers… — Ann Brashares
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our… — Eudora Welty
But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow… — Betty Smith

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