Quotes About Library

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

A personal library is an X-ray of the owner's soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being in the world. Even how the books are arranged on the shelves deserves notice, even reflection. There is probably no such thing as complete chaos in such arrangements.

And Phoebe and Sebastian went their separate ways, to the blacksmith shop and the library, after several backward glances that weren't coordinated enough to allow either to know that the other one was looking.

Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I had to do was find it.

It's important to clarify that a library is not necessarily made up of books that we've read, or even that we will eventually read. They should be books that we can read. Or that we may read. Even if we never do.

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

Najbol?a definicija zavi?aja jeste biblioteka.

We go into the library, that layman's priory, that paper-scented oasis of quiet industry and calm.

She did not need a library; she was a library.

To my sister's eyes, there is nothing which cannot be explained if one has access to a proper reference library.

no hay nada que no tenga explicación si uno tiene acceso a una biblioteca con buenos libros de referencia.

No more shall you go bookless, Mrs. Crumb. From this day henceforth you have free run of my library with my compliments. She stared. I- He grinned, looking not a little wicked. Have you looked at my books? Glanced at my titles? Fondled my spines?

He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.

I flipped through the rest of the pages—when you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain climber what he feels when he sees a mountain; a lion tamer what goes through his mind when he meets a new lion; a doctor confronted with a beautiful malfunctioning body. The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

but a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently.

And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.

Democracy or reading, democracy of space: our public library tradition, wherever we live in the wide world, was incredibly hard-won for us by the generations before us and ought to be protected, not just for ourselves but in the name of every generation after us.