Library Quotes - Page 10

Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card.

Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. ANOTHER VERSION I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

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

What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic buildings needs to be hierarchal in the community. It has to be equal to the library and the courthouse.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

Library: A place where the dead lie.

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.

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.

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