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... 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.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

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

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

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

For me becoming a painter was an Everest, in terms of what I thought a painter was. There are many roads to becoming an artist. For me it wasn't art school. I didn't have that go to art school and then get a gallery. It's more like, how deep is your inner library to cull from. It's certainly not about technical prowess, just about depth of investigation. It takes time. I had 15 years of painting under my belt before my first New York show. I was glad to have that. It's a good thing to spend your twenties getting your craft.

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.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world.

For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.

Freedom is a public library.

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars.

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche.

I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it!

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.