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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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Without the library, you have no civilization.

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

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

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

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

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

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

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

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.

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

Your library is your portrait.

A country whose citizens do not read is already late because "reading" is just the first step to wisdom acquisition. Application of the learnt knowledge is the gateway to personal transformation. If you don't read, you have not yet begun anything!

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

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

A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read one shelf at a time.

Agatha, I've decided. I'm going to marry you for your library.

A fig for your precious society with its bridge parties, its inane chatter, its cheap mentality; its dances and vulgar banquets; its snobbery and cheap pretension. The humblest library can show you upon a single shelf better society and far more select company than all the drawing-rooms of Europe, America, and South Africa.

Again, I don't fully understand my emotion response to the library or trust it. It was the site of a series of intellectual revelations that were crucial to me, not just as a student but as a human being.

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.

A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number of dark and creepy corners.

A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.

A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbidden and where such an evil thing as a tax-collector may be forgotten and, peradventure, forgiven.

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

A library is chamber of treasures.

A library is more precious than a bank.

A library is the temple for the learned

A library is treasure chamber of knowledge.

A library, no matter how big or small, is a careful balance of love and responsibility. A machine, if you will, cranked by those who care most about reading.

A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there’s this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet and not to run. But the thing was, that lady—that iconoclastic lady—was with us when we cleaned. She wore blue jeans, too. Maybe she was what people thought about when you said library, but she didn’t make the library. People made the library. That’s what made a library. Without them, all the sacredness was gone. It was just a building with books.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." À qui la faute? (1872)

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

A library is a place where you can find the stones and the diamonds together that you separate, and evaluate for the use of your purpose.

A library is such a potent symbol of a town's values: each one closed down might as well be six thousand stickers plastered over every available surface, reading "WE CHOSE TO BECOME MORE STUPID AND DULL.

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.

A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time to grow, and so must a library. I wouldn't even know what books to go and ask for. I dare say, if I were to try, I couldn't at a moment's notice tell you the names of more than two score of books at the outside. Folk must make acquaintance among books as they would among living folk.

A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a "true reflection of our history," whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful arrangement of computer codes. The librarian is the organizer, the animating spirit behind it, and the navigator. Her job is to create order out of the confusion of the past, even as she enables us to blast into the future.

A library may be described as a gigantic mincing-machine into which the labours of the past are flung, to be turned out again in a slightly altered form as the literature of the present.