Quotes About Library

Some archives and record offices are housed in your local museum or library; others have their own stand-alone building. Wherever they are, they are a treasure trove.

I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.

I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.

How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering.

immediately noticed the "splendid library, of course, with soft carpet, couches etc, such as became a sympathiser with the suffering classes." Her withering conclusion was "How can we sufficiently pity the needy unless we know fully the blessings of the plenty?" This autumn she

conditioning?" Del said. "What do you want to bet the library's a madhouse too?" Faz said.

I don't want the books [...] to be too far away; they, also, have become friends. I even feel this way about books I don't own. In libraries, I find myself visiting the books I used before. I regard those rows of memoirs and letters as voices from the past, bound into books, and I like to make sure they are all there, alive and well. If they have collected dust, I take out the small towel I carry in my briefcase and wipe them off. -from 2012 NYT Book Review Essay

I am going to Sky Talk library," Soother told Soother's-Pride. "I understand that a new book about one of the early human rulers has been sent down by the humans on one of the alternate communication channels. I want to study it carefully for new ideas. I hope that the ideas on government by the human Napoleon will prove to be as interesting as those of Machiavelli were.

Before taking her into the library, my wife told me she was an old friend in a marriage crisis. A fatuous lie; at her age there are no crises left in marriage, only acceptance and extraction. (General Villiers)

But how could she have forgotten who he was—a man who could lose himself in a single book, not to mention a world-class, open-stack library, for hours on end?

Aristotle wrote The Poetics, the "secrets" of story have been as public as the library down the street. Nothing in the craft of storytelling is abstruse. In fact, at first glance telling story for the screen looks deceptively easy. But moving closer and closer to the center, trying scene by scene to make the story work, the task becomes increasingly difficult, as we realize that on the screen there's no place to hide.

This is a repository of ideas, dissertations from geniuses, not a library packed with lies and fictions!

ogni vero editore compone, senza saperlo o anche sapendolo, un unico libro formato da tutti i libri che pubblica

Nothing is more dangerous to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.

Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr. Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.

Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

I tako, kad se ve? ?inilo da imam cijelu ku?u na raspolaganju, odlu?ih se vratiti u knjižnicu i vidjeti što mogu otkriti. Osim toga, volim knjižnice. Osje?am se ugodno i sigurno okružen sa svih strana zidovima od rije?i, predivnih i mudrih. Uvijek se osje?am bolje kad mogu vidjeti da postoji nešto što rastjeruje tamu.

My books were all on their shelves. Nobody steals books but your friends.

To make it a crime for public institutions to serve the undocumented simply isolated people and drove them into poverty, she wrote. From then on, people who came looking for a library card received one, regardless of whether their papers were in order.

I've been going to the library, looking up our history. There's a ton of it in anthropology books, a ton of it, Ruth. We haven't always been hated. Why didn't we grow up knowing that?

There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…" Uncle Will frowned. "Didn't they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?" "No. But I can recite 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' while making martinis." "I weep for the future." "There's where the martinis come in.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.