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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.

Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

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 live in the library.

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble.

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 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

Dear me, how I love a library.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Death is an ascension to a better library.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Don't forget to support your public library.

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life.

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

E-books are impervious to analogy.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

Every library is an arsenal.

Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways

Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

Everything. A letter may be coded, and a word may be coded. A theatrical performance may be coded, and a sonnet may be coded, and there are times when it seems the entire world is in code. Some believe that the world can be decoded by performing research in a library. Others believe that the world can be decoded by reading a newspaper. In my case, the only thing that made sense of the world was you, and without you the world will seem as garbled and tragic as a malfunctioning typewrit9.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

FedDev Ontario's investment in the Glanworth Branch Library has enhanced this unique landmark into an accessible learning hub for local community members. When we improve facilities, we are strengthening our communities and building a prosperous southern Ontario.

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.