Quotes About Library

But a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently. You will try every day of your life. Order is a certain clumsy grammar, a mnemonic device. Order just means: try to use verbs. Consider the tense. The poetry will follow.

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie in the arms of anyone who asked.

This library must be where dreams come to gather new stories. No one would call this a mere building; it was a kaleidoscope of wondrous sights. Even the sounds were magical, the murmurs of hundreds of secrets being shared. I stood at the entry for several minutes, just drinking in the amazing place.

De rust waarvan ik in een bibliotheek zo geniet bestaat niet alleen uit stilte. Al dat papier dempt ieder geluid, maar ook het ruisen van mijn gedachten. Hun ongedurigheid vindt troost in de overmacht aan kennis langs de wanden. Die is zoveel groter dan ooit in mijn hoofd zal passen. Dat kalmeert me en herinnert mij eraan dat ik niet per se alles hoef te weten en begrijpen. Zoveel is al opgeschreven en ik heb het allemaal binnen handbereik. Daar hoef ik mij dus niet meer mee bezig te houden.

One can never have too many books. Or read too many books.

nadie puede ser sabio sin haber leído por lo menos una hora al día, sin tener biblioteca por modesta que sea, sin maestros a los que respetar, sin ser lo bastante humilde para formular preguntas y atender con provecho las respuestas...

Una biblioteca no es algo por leer, sino una compañía —dijo, tras dar unos pasos más—. Un remedio y un consuelo.

Una biblioteca es un lugar donde hallar lo conveniente en el momento oportuno.

El sufrimiento era atroz con sólo imaginar dispersa mi biblioteca.

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

An ordinary man can... surround himself with two thousand books... and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which is is possible to be happy.

I took the book and placed it in the section for "new arrivals" and just looked at it there. Nothing I had ever done as a writer made me prouder than seeing my novel on a shelf in my childhood library.

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.

But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

My music library has about every genre of music possible. I've really gotten into Ray LaMontagne, He makes amazing music, so I listen to him, and he's a great artist.

I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.

My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going.

The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

I am not a big reader to begin with.