Library Quotes - Page 32

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

Libraries and demons," she muttered. "What is the attraction?

A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa.

I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

When in doubt, go to the library.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.

I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?

The Library is a wilderness of books.

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.

Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of.

Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.

A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it.

Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.

When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams on the same note. I'd tested her before I burnt the library, and our piano along with it. Rose screams on the note B flat. We don't need a piano anymore now that we have a human tuning fork.