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There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions of the matter--and hide things lest they should be lost, where neither the owner nor anybody else can find them. This is a sort of magpie faculty. If anything is left where you want it, it is called litter. There is a pedantry in housewifery, as well as in the gravest concerns. Abraham Tucker complained that whenever his maid servant had been in his library, he could not see comfortably to work again for several days.

There are so many items that are not in the copyright domain. And people might not realize the Library of Congress manages the copyright process for the nation.

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end, when he says that the stories are so illuminating that they must be engraved and encased in gold and put in the palace library, the people who compile the book are telling us that this is a collection of human wisdom.

There is no problem a library card can't solve.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

The retreat and disappearance of glaciers—there are only 160,000 left—means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.

There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

The richest person in the world - in fact. All the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. You can measure the awareness, the breadth and the wisdom of a civilization, a nation, a people by the priority given to preserving these repositories of all that we are, all that we were, or will be.

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

The Web is cool, but the library is magic.

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight-and Levi can't even read.

The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there sitting in any library. Whereas... I think if Joshi thinks [H.P.] Lovecraft was doing anything like that, just throwing together all this stuff to form a kind of anti-mythology, that's where I would disagree with him.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

Those who delve into the scriptural library … find that to understand requires more than casual reading or perusal—there must be concentrated study. … One who studies the scriptures every day accomplishes far more than one who devotes considerable time one day and then lets days go by before continuing.

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education. The young are no longer invited to seek the hidden truths, dynamic and eternal, locked within the shapes and behavior of living beings.

Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.