Library Quotes

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

The Only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

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

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

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

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Death is an ascension to a better library.

Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

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

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

What is reading but silent conversation?

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

I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

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

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.

Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages—and sages—and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

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

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

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

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

The public library is the most dangerous place in town

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

A library implies an act of faith.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate is she or he who is lured into such a hellhole of enjoyment, stimulus, facts, passion and fun.

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.

The great British Library —an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

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