Library Quotes - page 5

Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens. (Sue Townsend)
She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds. View quote
Shannon Hale
I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them. View quote
Beverly Cleary
A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need. View quote
Vicki Myron
The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down. View quote
Gordon Korman
What better place to kill time than a library? View quote
Diane Setterfield
I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy! View quote
Jacqueline Susann
We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories. View quote
John Thomas Sladek
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library. View quote
Jerzy Kosinski
I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. View quote
Karin Slaughter
And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. (Cornelia Funke)
A library doesn't need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible. View quote
Chris Grabenstein
Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window? View quote
Lev Grossman
Your library is your portrait. View quote
Linda Fairstein
A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure. View quote
Lilian Jackson Braun
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot. View quote
Ann Brashares
Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials. View quote
Tim Gunn
In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch. View quote
Adam Gopnik
I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales. View quote
Mike Myers
All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open. View quote
Mo Willems
You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read? (Patricia C. Wrede)
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. View quote
Alan Dundes
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible. View quote
Alexander Kluge
A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. View quote
Arthur Baer
I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time. View quote
Bitsie Tulloch