Library Quotes - Page 22

... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.

Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

What better place to kill time than a library?

He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.

I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have been not only the key to much of the knowledge I have acquired, but also have given me a direction within my profession. The best thing about the library is that it is available not only to me, but to everyone. It does not discriminate.

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

There are so many items that are not in the copyright domain. And people might not realize the Library of Congress manages the copyright process for the nation.

I read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, which I've loved since I was in high school. They had it at the library and I always thought that was interesting, even when I was into punk and stuff. Just the history of storytelling and the amount of melancholy a lot of old music has.

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library.

My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

Actually I'd always thought he sat in the library with a slim volume of metaphysical poetry until the commissioner called him on the bat phone and summoned him into action. Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed?

...I spent many, many hours in...libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

Libraries can take the place of God.