Quotes About Library

Today Mrs. Beasley began by clearing her throat. Again, this isn't a worrisome sign. Librarians are not overly talkative so our throats can get froggy from lack of use.

I wanted to stand up and shout that this was unfair, but loud voices were not permitted in the library.

Libraries of the Future is, in fact, one of the founding documents of what is now called digital library research, which includes (among other things) our efforts to manage information in that sprawling mass of data known as the World Wide Web.

Too, did I do anything in as poor taste as die here, Chester would be sorely vexed, and I had no desire to catch a minatory lecture from him on the subject. He had access now to an entire library of arcana; surely there would be some volume on the summoning of ghosts if I had the poor taste to expire before he could reach me to deliver it.

The library at home when she was child had been her refuge. She gravitated to it. When she was anxious, just taking a book of a shelf calmed her. Opening the cover, feeling the paper's smoothness, smelling the sheets, the leather, even sometimes the ink, centered her.

Death is an ascension to a better library.

The collection had the eclectic impersonality of a public library.

My chest of books divide amongst my friends--

Adding to that charm (as well as to the general air of funkiness), a large and ancient library desk took up almost half the lobby, and on it, overflowing, were dozens of brochures explaining CASA's work, announcements about classes and self-improvement programs, volunteer guidelines, knickknacks, craftsman bowls, several different magazines, and other specialty

Within a year or two, however, a couple of the first things I wrote – 'Anarchy In The UK' and 'God Save The Queen' – really hit their target. I'd like to thank the British public library system: that was my training ground, that's where I learned to throw those verbal grenades. I wasn't just throwing bricks through shop windows as a voice of rebellion, I was throwing words where they really mattered. Words count.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books.

Cada ave com as asas estendidas é um livro de duas folhas aberto no céu. Feio crime é roubar ou destruir essa miúda biblioteca de Deus. - o homem que calculava

A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.

The king was constantly asking for copies of particular texts, which he put together to form a little book

The house was larger than it looked from the outside, and elegant, and smelled lightly of cigar smoke. A side hallway led toward what must've been two or three bedrooms. A library featured pop fiction and a big octagonal poker table with a green baize surface; the living room was cluttered with couches and chairs and small tables. An oversized television hung from one wall.

A library is not information; it is a means of preserving information. In every case, before memory or information can be stored, someone must decide what must be stored. Someone must choose. Someone must curate.

Por el grosor del polvo en los libros de una biblioteca pública puede medirse la cultura de un pueblo.

Nothing is more important than an unread library.

In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.