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Quotes About Library

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
~ Lynda Barry
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.
~ John Waters
To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.
~ Unknown
Then he got more books. He saved all the books.
~ Dave Eggers
Kiki's fingerprint opened a heavy steel door and they entered a kind of library, if that library were designed by robots and for dinosaurs.
~ Dave Eggers
The biggest issue for digitally oriented people is that the ease of capturing and storing has generated a write-only syndrome: all they're doing is capturing information—not actually accessing and using it intelligently. Some consciousness needs to be applied to keep one's potentially huge digital library functional
~ David Allen
Decker looked behind him. 'That's nice.' 'What?' said Mars, looking too. 'Where the NAACP office was they built a public library. You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't.' 'Great, so let's get everybody in the world a library card.
~ David Baldacci
When I saw what was in there I felt like I had happened upon a treasure trove. Books! I pulled a goodly number of them out
~ David Baldacci
looked over at John. He had pulled a dozen books off the shelf and looked to be trying to read them all at once.
~ David Baldacci
He didn't like having to pay for a phone that had Internet access, but it was like having a huge library and an army of research assistants on the cheap. He
~ David Baldacci
For DeHaven it was well worth the extra money to a federal budget that had always allocated more to war than it ever did to peaceful purposes. For a fraction of the cost of one missile he could purchase on the open market every work the library needed to round out its rare books collection. Yet politicians believed that missiles kept you safe, whereas actually books did, and for a simple reason. Ignorance caused wars, and people who read widely were seldom ignorant.
~ David Baldacci
My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to read the choice of books that I as recommended at school, and that I could go out to the library and go and choose my own, and sort of introduced me to authors that I wouldn't have read.probably. You know, the usual things like the Jack Kerouacs, the Ginsbergs, the ee Cummings and stuff.
~ David Bowie
I called a cab, still in my towel. I jumped in the cab before it had even stopped at the gate. I actually said, The nearest library with a cutting-edge professional grief- and trauma-therapy section, and step on it.
~ David Foster Wallace
The library, and step on it!
~ David Foster Wallace
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
~ David Foster Wallace
He never leaves home, which home is one room, the converted Children's Reading Room of what used to be the Waltham Public Library, which is the whole third floor.
~ David Foster Wallace
Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.
~ William Shakespeare
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
~ William Shakespeare
Come and take choice of all my library and so beguile thy sorrow.
~ William Shakespeare
Ross stared a moment at the piece of flotsam he had brought home and hoped to salvage. She was standing there in her ragged shirt and three-quarter-length breeches, her matted hair over her face and the dirty half-starved puppy at her feet. She stood with one toe turned in and both hands loosely behind her back, staring across at the library. He hardened his heart. Tomorrow would not do.
~ Winston Graham
A zoo is a cultural institution. Like a public library, like a museum, it is at the service of popular education and science. And by that token, not much of a money-making venture for the Greater Good and the Greater Profit are not compatible aims.
~ Yann Martel
Seperti perpustakaan umum, atau museum, kebun binatang bertujuan melayani bidang pendidikan populer serta ilmu pengetahuan.
~ Yann Martel
That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read.
~ Christopher Morley
They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
~ Christopher Morley