Library Quotes - page 12

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be. Someone had stolen a book. (Terry Pratchett)
I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book. View quote
Terry Pratchett
It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as 'slightly foxed', although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had been badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I knew that the library was also the materialization of a certain level of the psyche, even as our world is. Only there, time is laid out like space is here. The windows of the library coincide with definite places in our space-time. In our world, these points of intersection may appear as natural objects, and these correlate with coordination points in your psyche. Moving toward these coordination points in your mind automatically lines up your consciousness to some extent with this other reality, and stabilizes conditions enough to allow for more or less conscious entry and return. View quote
Robert Butts
Every library is an arsenal. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one. View quote
Arthur C. Clarke
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. View quote
Andrew Carnegie
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. View quote
Hedy Lamarr
To take another simile [that the brain is like a machine], if we imagine a great library containing books which have a vast number of cross references one to another, then should one whole shelf be burned, it might be possible to reconstruct the lost books -- but somewhat less perfectly than at first. (Colin Cherry)
A library implies an act of faith. View quote
Victor Hugo
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. View quote
Garth Nix
This is a work which ought to be in every library in Canada; perhaps, after twenty-five years or so, it might silence the recurrent hubbub about nude paintings which is a feature of our national life. Yes, they are erotic. Yes, madam, the painters are often naughty men, and the models are sometimes bad girls. But there are elements involved in the painting of the nude which draw upon what is highest in art and express what is highest in mankind. Now, may we please look at the pictures? View quote
Robertson Davies
In one of the rooms of the Fortuny Palace there are eight books from Prospero's Library. They are magical books. In many senses all books are magical. View quote
Peter Greenaway
The major sweep of this book's living is too often marred by qualifying. It is hedged about with ifs and buts and if onlys and howevers, excuses for a life that is about to shut its covers for the last time and then crumple into dust in an unseen and never-to-be-remembered library. View quote
Peter Greenaway
Nagiko, I am waiting for you. Meet me at the library. Any library. Every library. Yours, Jerome. View quote
Peter Greenaway
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books. View quote
Alberto Manguel
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be. View quote
Alberto Manguel
In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond. View quote
Alberto Manguel
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. (Alberto Manguel)
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. View quote
Alberto Manguel
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence. View quote
Alberto Manguel
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed. View quote
Alberto Manguel
Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine. View quote
Alberto Manguel