Library Quotes - Page 23

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.

The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.

To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it.

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of the smart people to come together in one place where they can interact with one another.

I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while.

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books that hadn't been checked out in 30 years, so I didn't feel too bad.

I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.

I took to the Bodleian Library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms, to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

There are volumes and libraries of information in our minds and we are continually weighing information. We hear new things, we compare it with things we've heard before, and we take from it what we feel is pertinent and throw away what we feel isn't necessary.

The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

It's because of libraries that books like mine get recommended to book clubs and avid readers, who in turn pass them onto others looking to be whisked away from the world for a little while...and perhaps to learn a bit about themselves in the process.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.