Library Quotes

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

Why buy a book when you can join a library.

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them.

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

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.

Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained.

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

I'm not a library.

We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.

I think everything belongs in a certain place, for kids who feel they don't belong anywhere. A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

When 'The Awakening' was published it was considered so scandalous it was banned in the author's home-town library, and she herself was barred from the Fine Arts Club in the same city. What the novel has to offer, among other things, is honesty.

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

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books.