Library Quotes - page 11

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. (Isaac Asimov)
William I'm sorry I let my brother hoist you up the mast in that crappy jury-rigged bosun's chair while everybody laughed! William I'm sorry I could build better fires than you could! I'm sorry my stack of Christmas cards was always bigger than yours! ... William I'm sorry I invented bop jogging which you couldn't do! I'm sorry I loved Antigua! I'm sorry my mind wandered when you talked about the army! I'm sorry I was superior in argument! I'm sorry you slit open my bicycle tires looking for incriminating letters that you didn't find! You'll never find them! ... William! I'm sorry I looked at Sam but he was so handsome, so handsome, who could not! I'm sorry I slept with Sam! I'm sorry about the library books! I'm sorry about Pete! I'm sorry I never played the guitar you gave me! I'm sorry I married you and I'll never so it again! View quote
Donald Barthelme
Every age is known by its pleasures, Fielding reads from the library readout. The twentieth introduced two: high speed and hallucinogenic drugs. Both proved dangerous in the long run, which made them even more interesting. View quote
Gregory Benford
Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2) View quote
Russell T Davies
I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy. View quote
Jane Austen
'You', the ego, live in your left brain. When we say that man is the only creature who spends 99 per cent of his time inside his own head, we mean, in fact, inside his left cerebral hemisphere. And in the basement of the left hemisphere is the library full of filing cabinets -- the stuffy room that we mistake for reality. View quote
Colin Wilson
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. View quote
José Saramago
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library. View quote
Stephen King
Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. View quote
Stephen King
There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. View quote
Ray Bradbury
His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore. (Ray Bradbury)
Without the library, you have no civilization. View quote
Ray Bradbury
When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!? View quote
Ray Bradbury
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. View quote
Ray Bradbury
What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? View quote
Ray Bradbury
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. View quote
Virginia Woolf
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. View quote
Mark Ruffalo
I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books, a good library. Every time I catch a plane, I have with me a book that I want to read-and that's a lot of books these days. If I weren't out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity-because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about. View quote
Malcolm X
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog. View quote
Sandra Cisneros
Your library is your paradise. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. (Rodney Dangerfield)
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. View quote
Rita Dove
Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. View quote
Rita Dove
"Hey!” the people cried in their dreams. "Give us back our ghosts!” for ghosts are as much a part of a community as its plumbing or its library, for how can a community be without its memories? View quote
Ian McDonald
AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to it-because it reminded him of her. View quote
Brandon Sanderson