Quotes About Library

The next library is a place, still. A place where people come together to do co-working and coordinate and invent projects worth working on together. Aided by a librarian who can bring domain knowledge and people knowledge and access to information to bear.

For a child a library needs to be round the corner. And if we lose local libraries it is children who will suffer.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination.

Libraries are very special spaces, spaces where people come together in separate but joint pursuits of knowledge, of learning. Libraries are the heartbeats of communities.

To reduce a library to simple architecture, bricks and mortar is a mistake. Similarly, to suggest a library is defined by the books on the shelf is erroneous.

Mr. Pilkey smiled. "Well, I wish they were on the shelves, where everybody could read them," he said. "I think it's important that libraries be a place where you can find all kinds of books. Good ones, bad ones, funny ones, serious ones. Every person should be free to read whatever they want, whenever they want, and not have to explain to anyone else why we like it, or why we think it's valuable. I hope you all get a chance to read my books someday.

Gleda biblioteku: dva zida puna knjiga do tavanice - to je sav njegov svet. Iz njega ga niko ne ugrožava i ne ponižava. Tu bira sabesednike. Spusti pogled na radni sto i pisa?u mašinu: taj ružni predmet organ je njegovog tela; on ga na ovom svetu jedino poznaje, njemu je skoro sve rekao što je moglo da stane u re?, on je sve zapamtio.

Their mutual interest in wine soon led to a close friendship. Many evenings, the two would get together in the great library of Château Lascombes to compare wine notes and great vintages they had drunk. Almost always it was done over a special bottle of wine.

now he was requesting as much microfilm as the librarians would let him have at one time, and was buzzing it all through the viewer with such speed that the machine was actually rocking on the table. (Several other researchers, with the frowns of elephants disturbed at their feeding, had gathered up their own materials and moved

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

A room without books is like a life without meaning.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn't exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual's curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

the only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

You've moved an entire country away with a big bunch of books and a van. said Surinder. I already think you are totally stupid.

I want to be with books, have them all around me.

After years of working in public service, it had come as a bit of a surprise to her how genuinely interested she was in running a business; seeing what worked, looking at stock, and, of course, matching the right book to the right person. It was the same joy she had always felt at the library, but somehow, watching people leaving with books they could keep forever was even more profound.

You can come with me to the McGregor Room," I say. "But you have to promise to be quiet." Affectionately Peter says, "Lara Jean, only you would look forward to hanging out in a library.

Can I ask you something?' Will says and I say 'Sure, ask me something.' 'How do you know all this?' 'I'm a fucking librarian

On the third morning of the riots Burdett saw a constable, balanced on a ladder, peering through his library windows, and heard soldiers break in downstairs: he was arrested reading the Magna Carta to his son, an aptly dramatic scene. He was then taken to the Tower in a coach guarded by six hundred cavalrymen wielding sabres.

First thing I do when I get in a library is - I go to the stacks and nose around. The idea is - you don't know what you're interested in. That's why it's possible to be surprised. So, instead of looking for things in particular, you look for what you didn't know you liked, and then when you find it you know that you liked it, and then you are a broader person than you were before.

Thomas Sowell asserts that by the late 1960's, black men from families with a library card, magazines and other literature in the home reached high-level occupations as often as white males of similar backgrounds.