Library Quotes - Page 29

Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress

I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."

I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.

I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I've found. It's surprising how much out there still has no online presence.

Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house.

Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society.

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.

Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.

There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end, when he says that the stories are so illuminating that they must be engraved and encased in gold and put in the palace library, the people who compile the book are telling us that this is a collection of human wisdom.

Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing.

If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.

Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.