Library Quotes - Page 24

I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.

What was it with people always trying to kill me in the library? Nickamedes so needed to put up warning signs. Danger: Working here could be hazardous to your health.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they checked my book out of the library, I'm delighted. I've always been a big library user, and feel a kinship with others who do the same thing.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.

I've got libraries in my blood.

Research, as the college student will come to know it, is relatively thorough investigation, primarily in libraries, of a properly limited topic, and presentation of the results of this investigation in a carefully organized and documented paper of some length.

... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.

The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further - universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically doable

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

You're a library of me.

Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

I have a library room with four desks in it. On one of them is a spec, on one of them is a present work, on one of them is reading for a future work, on another desk is a novel I'm not doing until I'm a hundred and fifty, and things like that. But, contractually speaking, you just do one at a time when it's on and paid and live. You do your real day on one project and the rest is just literary life. Or intrusions.