Quotes About Library

The Butterfly Book," said Jessie. "The Shell Book," said Violet. "The Flower Book," said Henry. "Oh, these three books must belong to a set.

They both fell silent. For a while the only sound they could hear was the noise of books resting on shelves, which wasn't really enough of a sound to distract them from the awkwardness of the moment.

From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream.

When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.

I came to writing because I joined the North Clare Writers' Workshop, which met every week at Ennistymon Library.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.

Writing in India will not dramatically change till we learn to value books.

I got into history when I was 11 years old, and it all started with the Titanic. I'd read books in the library about it. Of course I've seen the movie, too - I don't think I've ever cried that much.

I'm not really a book person, to be honest.

I like books. I read a lot, to be honest.

I'm not that big of a reader, to be honest.

He found the job satisfying, as if by creating orderliness in one corner of the library he could restore a sense of order in the world at large.

I keep three kinds of books: those I want to read, those I want to reread, and those I want to reopen just to confirm how bad they are.

A room more clearly meant to delight the heart of a bibliophile I could not imagine.

It had three or four book-cases, all of them very full, and a rack of wands, with newspapers and magazines hung out upon them like dripping laundry.

You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there!

When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either "You're joking, right?" or "They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.

I began to see it was the community, not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians were only as important as the community they inspired. If I was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn't be to protect information, it would be to bring the community together and inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for.

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.