Best 1113 quotes in «library quotes» category

Who wants a library full of books you've already read?

Why is everyone always trying to take money away from libraries? Aren’t books sort of the reason we’re even in school at all?

Wireless coverage can even be found on the summit of Mount Everest, the highest-elevated and arguably one of the most hostile surfaces on the planet. Wherever there is a wireless connection, you will inevitably find someone using a mobile device.

Wisdom is my religion. Books are my priest. Libraries are my temple. Enlightenment is my heaven.

With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.

With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaqua’s hands. “One of my favorites.

With its reverent silence the Library was as close to a religious experience as anything he had ever encountered. Its domed reading room was a thing of sheer beauty and wonder. It always inspired in him a childish desire to stand in the centre and spin round and round, making it appear as though the books spiralled into infinity.

Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office started accumulating letters, it was storing words. In fact, what was being created was what we call a 'gevaisa', a tomb of living words.

Words, words, words taken out of place and mutilated, words from other men — those were the alms left him by the hours and the centuries.

Write as much as you can. Read as much as you can. Use the library and the internet carefully for research and talk to people about things that matter. If you have an idea in your head talk it to people as a normal conversation, to get their natural opinions. And don’t forget to jot down discreetly any new ideas you get from people. God may use other people to convey messages to you, that may add more information to the ideas you already have.

Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Sunday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books...books..books.

Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory.

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.

Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to buy and read a book at your own volition to obtain an information for your self-development? Knowledge doesn't chase people; people chase knowledge and information.

You belong in the library, as much as any book.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

You can get lost in any library, no matter the size. But the more lost you are, the more things you'll find.

You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.

You can only learn to read by reading.

You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.

You can tell a lot about an area from its library, and I'd never discount the usefulness of town archives.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.

You don’t write a book when God called you to publish a library! You don’t plant a tree when God send you to cultivate a forest! You don’t evangelize to a crowd when God called you for a multitude! No matter the circumstances, find yourself doing something relevant and do it till all is well done!

You, my dear, should spend more time in a library. It's not just a hiding place, but also the place where the chases happen.

A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.

Your answers lie here," Rovender said, gesturing around the library.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.

You will never find me in trouble. You will find me in the library. If you can remember where that is.

Access to a school library results in more reading.

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

A library is all the university you will ever need.

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.

A library is a fueling station for your mind.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.