Library Quotes - Page 19

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.

A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

No libraries, no progress.