Library Quotes - Page 8

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.

My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna.

Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.

Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.

Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me.

It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner.

What is reading but silent conversation?

A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.

The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

The Library is the heart of the University.

Health information is just about the number one thing that people go into public libraries and connect to public libraries for. They're also looking for information about things that can make their lives better. It's a great equalizer.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.

A library implies an act of faith.

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.