Library Quotes - page 16

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home. (Elizabeth Kostova)
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. View quote
Elizabeth Kostova
Instead of going home, I drove to the library. To hell with human beings. I'd always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood. View quote
Alice Hoffman
The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library. View quote
Alison Gopnik
A library is never complete. That's the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection. View quote
Catherynne M. Valente
Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried. View quote
Kim Edwards
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was. View quote
Lisa Kleypas
It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There's no room for courtesy or chivalry here. View quote
Linwood Barclay
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. View quote
Michael Caine
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. View quote
Carolyn Wells
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. (Lady Bird Johnson)
The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. View quote
John Allen Paulos
I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take. View quote
Charlie Kaufman
Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library. View quote
Brewster Kahle
After my first encounter with (UDC) for the Akers library, I became increasingly interested in problems of information organisation for retrieval. My first paper in the field was "The Structure of a Connective Index" (Vickery, 1950). View quote
Brian Campbell Vickery
Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort. Books are the one element in which I am personally and nakedly acquisitive. If it weren't for the law I would steal them. If it weren't for my purse I would buy them. View quote
Harold J. Laski
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library. View quote
John Lewis (civil rights leader)
Inclusive. It's one of those ghastly, politically correct words that have survived the demise of New Labour. Schools have got to be ‘inclusive' these days. That means wheelchair ramps, the complete works of Alice Walker in the school library (though no Mark Twain) and a Special Educational Needs Department that can cope with everything from dyslexia to Münchausen syndrome by proxy. If [then education secretary, Michael] Gove is serious about wanting to bring back O-levels, the government will have to repeal the Equalities Act because any exam that isn't ‘accessible' to a functionally illiterate troglodyte with a mental age of six will be judged to be ‘elitist' and therefore forbidden by Harman's Law. View quote
Toby Young
There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall. View quote
Al Yankovic
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. View quote
Alan Garner
I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books. (Andrew Wylie)
There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture. View quote
Annabelle Selldorf
When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all. View quote
AnnaLynne McCord
I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction - so I'll usually take a book and go off to one of my favorite bistros for a cappuccino or espresso or maybe I'll have some lovely smoked salmon for breakfast. View quote
Anthony Geary
There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library. View quote
Anthony Hecht