Library Quotes - page 22

The place was part museum, part library, and part archive; I loved it at first sight...and smell, for here there were thousands of printed books, many very old indeed, and nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books. (Dan Simmons)
The Encyclopoedia Britannica could be reduced to the volume of a matchbox. A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk. View quote
Vannevar Bush
I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation. View quote
Lupe Fiasco
It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those. View quote
Iain Banks
I do not like books. I believe I have the smallest library of any literary man in London, and I have no wish to increase it. I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudie's, and it makes me very angry if anyone gives me one for my private library. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections. View quote
Michael Chabon
Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library. View quote
John Waters
I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters. View quote
Bram Cohen
The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. View quote
Henry Rollins
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.)
If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. View quote
Tony Benn
Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. View quote
Augustine Birrell
I was once hired to develop a Windows-based chemistry library for a company that builds reactors that burn toxic metal waste into harmless substances. View quote
Paul DiLascia
As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money. View quote
Julie Burchill
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldnt get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic. View quote
David Blaine
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. View quote
William Osler
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him. View quote
William Osler
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds -- or tries to add -- the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented. View quote
William Osler
Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
When all else fails, give up and go to the library. View quote
Stephen King
I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. View quote
Ray Bradbury
I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. View quote
Ray Bradbury
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. View quote
Malcolm X