Library Quotes

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

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.

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.

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

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

Why by a book when you can join a library.

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.

As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.

If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

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.

Your library is your paradise.

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

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

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.'

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

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.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the 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.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.