Quotes About Library

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

Every book banned by the school board in this novel is the title of a book that has been challenged or banned in an American library at least once in the last thirty years.

I have a very clear memory of my first encounter with myth, sitting in a mobile library and travelling, at the same time, with Theseus on the road to Athens. By the time we'd met, and disposed of, the pine-bending giant Sinis, I'd become completely entranced. Within a few months I'd read every book on myths, legends and folklore in our two nearest libraries.

With me being the bookworm I am, it might seem queer that I didn't go to the library sooner than I did. But books were a nice thing in my life, a luxury and a reminder of better times, and I didn't want to start letting nice things back into my world until I thought there was at least a chance of making it through the next couple of days.

In London, I discovered a peculiar building by Holland Park where the globe was shrunk to fit a British perspective, but which had a library with Sri Lankan books I had never seen before.

The Woodruff Library Archives has done a phenomenal job archiving my son's materials.

My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.

I worry about Google's data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can't deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library.

Some people are made to be famous and do photo shoots, but I'm not one of them. I'm more comfortable in the library!

The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.

I love the physicality of books.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

Television is like a library. There are a lot of library books in it, and you have to pick and choose what you take out of it.

When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.

My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.

Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you find a book that you love.

I spent many, many hours in the stack at the University of Washington library just wandering around, when my dad was working, as a kid.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

There were two kinds of students who liked the library: those who devoured one book after another and those who savored the same book repeatedly. Now she understood those rereaders differently ... she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader-- because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

Nisam kupio posljednji svezak Svjetske enciklopedije. S obzirom da sam izabran za jednog od autora, sada vidim da je Wikipedija posve dobar izvor informacija jer znam kakva je kontrola kvalitete u pravim enciklopedijama. Ali ponekad kad s djecom do?em u knjižnicu ne mogu odoljeti da ne otvorim slovo »V« i pokažem im. To je napisao njihov tata.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.