Best 1113 quotes in «library quotes» category

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.

More people should use their library.

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.

My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

My library is filled with UN condemnations.

My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I'm a little bit obsessed.

My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.

Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the great library of the known, but the practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear but in wonder.

One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

One must be prepared to reject not only the schema of the physical library, which is essentially a response to books and their proliferation, but the schema of the book itself, and even that of the printed page as a long term storage device, if one is to discover the kinds of procognitive systems needed in the future.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

One of the powerful functions of a library-any library-lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and comfortable and into ones which we can neither predict nor control, to lead us down new roads whose contours and vistas provide us with new perspectives.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

[On libraries] What's great about them is that anybody can go into them and find a book and borrow it free of charge and read it. They don't have to steal it from a bookshop... You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'

One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call "the other digital divide.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or advancing their elite positions, thereby lending tacit support to power structures. Or they might not be.