Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.
The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.
I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes.
Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress
[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.
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.
Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.
More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.
I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.
I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.
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.
Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
I enjoy biographies and whatnot. I'm also a fan of presidential libraries. I've visited quite a few of them, especially the more modern ones.
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.
To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.
So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'
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.
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.
Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al)
The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.
All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.
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.
The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.
Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.
I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.
The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.
I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.