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Quotes About Library

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
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.
~ Jose Saramago
It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.
~ Lev Grossman
Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.
~ Robin Sloan
Home is where your books are.
~ Kerstin Gier
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
~ Samuel Johnson
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.
~ Ally Carter, Heist Society
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.
~ Spider Robinson
New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.
~ Emo Philips
I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk louder, then!"
~ Mitch Hedberg
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
~ Stephen Fry
they should let some people into the library by prescription only
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.
~ Connie Willis
I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.
~ Jennifer Estep, Dark Frost
I love libraries. Everybody there is serious and focused even if they are not absorbing or learning anything better
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Being the evil undead wasn't fun anymore. For one thing, it was increasingly hard to get a library card.
~ Sharon Ashwood
Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.
~ Clementine Holzinger, EL32
In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.
~ José Latour
Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?
~ Lindsey Davis, Alexandria
THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
~ Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
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.
~ Terence McKenna
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
~ Pete Hamill
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.
~ Abdul Kalam
Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.
~ Patrick Ness