Library Quotes - Page 13

A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.

If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.

[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. [Referring to the diverse holdings of the library, including motion pictures, photographs, recordings, posters and other historic objects which collectively far outnumber the books]

I would walk into the Carnegie Library and I would see the pictures of Booker T. and pictures of Frederick Douglass and I would read. I would go into the Savannah Public Libraries in the stacks and see all of the newspapers from all over the country. Did I dream that I would be on the Supreme Court? No. But I dreamt that there was a world out there that was worth pursuing.

A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

Don't forget to support your public library.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

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

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

Choose an author as you would a friend.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

Seventy million books in America's libraries, but the one you want to read is always out.

I taught myself more in the library than school taught me.

You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

A library is the door to many lives.