Library Quotes - Page 20

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

We all know of the dangers and inequities of the traditional digital divide: People who have good access tocomputer networks have a distinct advantage - in terms of both life opportunities and quality of life, I wouldargue - over the vast majority of the world's population that does not yet have good access to computernetworks. The "other" digital divide points to an increasingly unstable situation that has developed inlibrarianship as digital libraries have evolved and matured.

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

It looked the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed,' although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had beed badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well.

One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

The library...of wisdom is more precious than all riches, and nothing that can be wished for is worthy to be compared with it. Whosoever therefore acknowledges himself to be a zealous follower of truth, of happiness, of wisdom, of science, or even of faith, must of necessity make himself a lover of books.

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.

More people should use their library.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right now?" and I'm like, "Yeah... sorry!"

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.