Quotes About Library

No I've never read a line of de Sade and never shall. You see my own dominant overpowering maniacal vice was sadism and in Philadelphia (isn't that the right place for such a thing?) I used to borrow from a friend Sadistic Books in French (he had half a library of them!) and carry them off to my lodging where I wd. read them with my knees knocking together & all my pulses going it like mad in a prolonged cerebral fury of crazy unsatisfied satisfaction.

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

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

I was a librarian.

Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

I started doing a Ph.D., and then I thought, 'I don't really want to spend all this time on my own in the library.'

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

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

My parents were really poor. We never bought books because you could go to the library. It would be stupid to buy one.

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

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.

The London Library in Piccadilly is the best place for a sleep.

My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading.

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller.

ArcGIS includes a Living Atlas of the World. It's like a large living library of geographic information.

My father encouraged me to work in the library, just because it was the world that he knew. But I also wanted to do it. I also wanted to work in the library and be part of the library somehow, because it represented a world that really wasn't represented in my home, and I wanted it to be.

Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'

We've always read to the kids, every night both kids get books. That's really important, and they love books. Our daughter is obsessed with reading and books, so it's really sweet. She has her own little personal library.