Quotes About Library

The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., contains about seven thousand works on Shakespeare—twenty years' worth of reading if read at the rate of one a day—and, as this volume slimly attests, the number keeps growing.

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son, each one stitched into his own private coat, together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.

After all, is a gentleman's library of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves anything more than a vanity?

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

De esta ciudad de libros hizo dueños a unos ojos sin luz

It was a dark day. A chill wind blew snowflakes against the window of Mr Norrell's library where Childermass sat writing business letters. Though it was only ten o'clock in the morning the candles were already lit. The only sounds were the coals being consumed in the grate and the scratch of Childermass's pen against the paper.

There is a book waiting for him upon the library table; his eyes fancy they still follow its lines of type, his head still runs upon its argument, his fingers itch to take it up again.

Felicity grabbed onto a broken roof beam for support. It was strange, standing in the middle of where the drawing room used to be, and seeing her broken bedchamber furniture occupying the same space. She wanted to cry every time she looked at the rubble, but weeping wouldn't help her dig out her jewelry box or the books piled in the wreck of the library.

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to.

i have so many books i am perishing to read in my bookcase. hours-and-hours-and-hours- and hours.

and everywhere books, books, books

This was where his happiness lay, to sit in the great library and to read all things.

Even the most misfitting child Who's chanced upon the library's worth, Sits with the genius of the Earth And turns the key to the whole world. --Hear It Again

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the middle of the night too scared to move or too sad to roll over, the books were my saviors.

Ah –dijo Oliveira. –Tiene un gato y muchísimos libros.

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

No duelling. No summoning of imps or other manifestations of elements potentially damaging to the records, including but not limited to: elementals, imps, sprites, ifrits, goblins, vile maidens, elohim, and major, minor and inferior spawn. No praying. No cursing, except by staff. The library is closed on public holidays. Donations welcome." -Demonia Library

La sección más importante de mi casa es la biblioteca, donde guardo verdaderos tesoros.

Während sie die Stufen zur Bibliothek hinablief, konnte Furia die Geschichten schon riechen: den besten Geruch der Welt.

Nicht jeder, der ein Bücherregal hat, ist auch gleich ein Bibliomant.

My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.

I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.