Library Quotes - Page 18

Shera's Two Laws of Cataloging: Law #1, No cataloger will accept the work of any other cataloger. Law #2: No cataloger will accept his/her own work six months after the cataloging.

sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.

Your library is your portrait.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.

I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

I went into the library and read about fast food and became amazed by all the stuff I didn't know. I learned that there is a whole world behind the counter that, it seemed to me, has been deliberately hidden from the public.

Dear me, how I love a library.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.