Best 1113 quotes in «library quotes» category

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

What better place to kill time than a library?

What can I say? Librarians rule.

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

What is reading but silent conversation?

What people actually refer to as research is really just Googling. I already have a complicated relationship with research. It used to be going to the library and looking up archival photos, etc.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

What was it with people always trying to kill me in the library? Nickamedes so needed to put up warning signs. Danger: Working here could be hazardous to your health.

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and not trulycumulative treasure; where immortal works stand side by side with anthologies which did not survive their month, and cobweb and mildew have already spread from these to the binding of those; and happily I am reminded of what poetry is,--I perceive that Shakespeare and Milton did not foresee into what company they were to fall. Alas! that so soon the work of a true poet should be swept into such a dust-hole!

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

When something is discovered by people in movie theaters, it's discovered by people who are all together, and there's a sort of feeling of an event about it. And when it's on video, it's like something is being discovered in the library or something. It's like having a second life in public libraries. It's just like individuals, and it's less of a... We can't participate in it the same way.

When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.

When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.

When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I'd flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day.

When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams on the same note. I'd tested her before I burnt the library, and our piano along with it. Rose screams on the note B flat. We don't need a piano anymore now that we have a human tuning fork.

When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they checked my book out of the library, I'm delighted. I've always been a big library user, and feel a kinship with others who do the same thing.

When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.

Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?

With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don’t know, one could create a library.

With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

Yesterday all five living presidents gathered for the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas. Well, six living presidents if you count Hillary in 2016.

You can't have a great university without a great library.

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been

You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.

A book is a small library you can fit into your pocket.