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Quotes About Library

On the third day, he brought a library copy of the novel Galatea 2.2, which he had recently enjoyed.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Good morning, magazines! Good morning, bookmarks! Good morning, books! Good morning, store!
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Não tem ninguém no mundo como o pessoal dos livros. É um negócio de cavalheiros e damas.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
When dad says he's going to church, he actually means he's going to a library or a bookstore." - Gabrielle Zevin, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Always with a book and content at home or at the store.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Kate) had found multiple titles by individual authors scattered willy-nilly through the collection. It made her want to pull her hair out. Obviously!- an individual author's body of work all belonged on one shelf, the works arranged, in turn, by whatever system was most suitable: by volume number, alphabetically by title, or by the year of publication, or, in case of playwrights, works grouped by genre- tragedies with tragedies, comedies with comedies, histories with histories, and so on.
~ Gaelen Foley
Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.
~ Garth Nix
So you just went in and told him to give you two Cokes and he gave them to you?" "No, I didn't just go in and tell him to give me two Cokes. I asked for a Coke for me and a Coke for the skinny thug sitting on the library steps.
~ Gary D. Schmidt
Now that I've owned up to being a collector, I'll say that what really gets me off is knowing I have this personal library of everything that appeals to me, and that I can pull any of it out whenever I want to. That's the wonderful thing, customizing the soundtrack of your life.
~ Brett Milano
she was five years old and got her first library card, which to a bookish little girl was like a religious experience.
~ Brian Freeman
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.
~ Brian Selznick
A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.
~ Brian Selznick
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.
~ Brian Selznick
He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.
~ Brian Selznick
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.
~ Brian Selznick
When Springsteen meets a future girlfriend on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, he delivers this electric introduction: "She was Italian, funny, a beatific tomboy, with just the hint of a lazy eye, and wore a pair of glasses that made me think of the wonders of the library.
~ Bruce Springsteen
We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.
~ Bruce Vento
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
~ Bruno Bettelheim
He loved books, never going to sea without a newly replenished library, compact but of the best.
~ Herman Melville
THE FOLLOWING WORK was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear. The principal incidents are such as were believed in the darkest ages of Christianity; but the language and conduct have nothing that savours of barbarism. The style is the purest Italian.
~ Horace Walpole
It's like a sealed, forgotten chamber in me; I shan't feel complete until I've discovered its entrance.' 'Sounds like a tomb. Aren't you afraid of what you'll find in there?' 'It's a library; only the stupid and the evil are afraid of those.
~ Iain Banks
It's a library; only the stupid and the evil are afraid of those
~ Iain Banks
WHEN THE Diamond Smugglers was first published Ian Fleming had a copy bound for his own library. On the flyleaf, as was his custom, he wrote a short paragraph describing its genesis. It started with the alarming words: "This was written in 2 weeks in Tangiers, April 1957." As the ensuing tale of woe made clear, he didn't consider it his finest fortnight. He ended with the dismissive verdict: "It
~ Ian Fleming
Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.
~ Ian Mcewan