Library Quotes - Page 27

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read.

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn't permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything.

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.

One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.

Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need so badly, here and in Pakistan and Bolivia and Java, not to speak of the countless women who came before me and were not allowed into the laboratory, or the library, or the conversation, or the revolution, or even the category called human.

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

A library is all the university you will ever need.

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight-and Levi can't even read.

If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's a testament to "that's part of our culture, that's part of our history."