Library Quotes - Page 12

As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

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

Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.

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

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer.

Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.