Library Quotes - Page 16

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.

When something is discovered by people in movie theaters, it's discovered by people who are all together, and there's a sort of feeling of an event about it. And when it's on video, it's like something is being discovered in the library or something. It's like having a second life in public libraries. It's just like individuals, and it's less of a... We can't participate in it the same way.

The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.

She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.

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

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

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.

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

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.

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.