Reading Room Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of…
— David Mamet
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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for…
— C S Forester
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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
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To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as…
— Helen Garner
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It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn’t have to worry about some…
— Karen Russell
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I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a…
— Haruki Murakami
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I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on…
— Henry Fonda
Who Wrote These Reading Room Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 Reading Room Quotes as follows: