Library Quotes

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a fl...

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Paradise will be a kind of library

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitat...

I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in on...

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number o...

Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an a...

In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes...

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one aft...

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, w...

Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another ...

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume the...

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll...

Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to ta...

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

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go b...

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of ...

Some people write letters, in the library.

They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.

Over the years I have collected so many books that, in aggregate, they can fairly be called a librar...

I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library.

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebod...

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united...

For kids who are exposed to books at home, the loss of a library is sad. But for kids who come from ...

I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-...

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do...

The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understandin...

every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an infi...

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've vis...

There was a grumpy librarian in the library. I could tell that he was the librarian because he seeme...

The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in t...

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in...

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, ...

In the room...they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning...

I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was i...

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in...

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always t...

INTERVIEWERYou’re self-educated, aren’t you?BRADBURYYes, I am. I’m completely library educated. I’ve...

Libraries raised me.

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did....

Up steps, three, six, nine, twelve! Slap! Their palms hit the library door. * * * They opened the do...

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms,...

It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master...

I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd l...

It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk whe...

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and...

The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge ...

Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful...

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room'...

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over hal...

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a ...

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a ...

Bookshelves stood against the four walls. They were shapely and well made, but were all second-hand;...

He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winte...

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

My library is an archive of longings.

During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a sour...

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future o...

Even the most misfitting childWho's chanced upon the library's worth,Sits with the genius of the Ear...

Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts t...

Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited p...

He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the pea...

As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as th...

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishme...

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

The visitor enters and says, "What a lot of books! Have you read them all?" ...The best answer is th...

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...

Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...

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

A library implies an act of faith.

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

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegat...

The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to fol...

And the non-reading of books, you will object, should be characteristic of all collectors? This is n...

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

In the wide pile, by others heeded not,Hers was one sacred solitary spot,Whose gloomy aisles and ben...

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very e...

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found ...

It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since...

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library

Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if s...

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port

Each one dreams the dream of life in his own way. I have dreamed it in my library; and when the hour...

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and...

When he was seventy-four years old the Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis began a book. He called it ...