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... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.

As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of the smart people to come together in one place where they can interact with one another.

A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

A small number of choice books are sufficient.

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries recognized that such "Americanization" could be achieved through literacy. Thus, teaching immigrants to read was not just a benefit in and of itself; literacy would also serve the interests of democracy.

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.

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.

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

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, 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 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.

Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed?

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

Death is an ascension to a better library.

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

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

E-books are impervious to analogy.

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

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

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.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

Don't forget to support your public library.

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

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