Quotes About Library

Aubrey didn't know what to think of this. People came here for books. Or, in Ben's case, to drive her crazy.

and several bulging bookshelves which I really will organize one day.

several bulging bookshelves which I really will organize one day.

I spent my next hour reshelving, and the next thirty minutes straightening out the Mc's and Mac's. Nobody on God's earth understands the Mc/Mac principle anymore. In order to do that, you have to be willing to think about something other than your genitals for a full minute.

Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks. But they should. They should.

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

If I could only meet Sally in the silent reading room of the public library, it wouldn't make any difference.

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

E. E. Bauermeister, supervisor of education and correctional counselor at California Institution for Men, Chino, California, who told the authors: "I always tell the men in our self-adjustment class that too often what we read and profess becomes a part of our libraries and our vocabularies, instead of becoming a part of our lives.

An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.

The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.

Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book.

I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.

Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.

Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

Here I was, locked inside this creepy old library with a monster, and I was worried about getting scolded for being late for dinner!

Delighted, Jess said. I think all houses should be stuffed with books. It makes them-- Homes? the doctor finished. You are quite the heretic, for someone in a Library uniform. Guilty.

When you steal a book, you steal from the world , the Library propaganda said

I gambled for the soul of the Library. And I lost.

To all those who face change without fear. Go forward. To the ever-transforming glory of the public library, without which we would all be diminished. No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments. We are all book lovers. And we all chase the Great Library of Alexandria, one book at a time.