Library Quotes - Page 26

Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

Are you in a library or what?! (on the crowd being quiet)

Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

invaders always destroy libraries.

A library is a fueling station for your mind.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

[People in 1600s] didn't have many books. They would have been staggered by the personal libraries we have today, because books back then were incredibly expensive.

Katie Paterson introduced the project [ Future Library ] to a handful of writers at a very fine international literary festival in Denmark at the Louisiana Museum, I sent her an e-mail when I got back to Iceland, saying, "It's a wonderful project.

I followed the launch of the library with Margaret Atwood and then David Mitchell. I just sat quietly at home secretly envying them. Then just over a month ago she asked me if I would like to be the third author to join the library.

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

Having a person of Dr. Berthiaume's calibre leading Library and Archives Canada will be a solid asset to the organization. His extensive experience in the management of large cultural organizations and his strong leadership are important qualifications for this position.

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

E-books are impervious to analogy.

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called upon to decide. It provides the stability and continuity for the rule of law.

You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it.

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.