Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jandy Nelson

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

Jane Austen

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Janis Ian

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

Carl T. Rowan

The library is the temple of learning.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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.

Elie Wiesel

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

Annie Dillard

It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

Anita Roddick

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

Andrew Wiles

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

Anita Brookner

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Alex Haley

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

Alex Haley

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Drew Barrymore

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

David Mamet

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

Dana Stabenow

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

I think reconstructing his library would be fantastic. That would be a real contribution to scholarship.

Bob Richardson

presents all the options; we show the library of tea.

Bjarne Stroustrup

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries

Bjarne Stroustrup

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Bill Gates

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

The Le Mars Public library is a regional resource.

Joe Paterno

You can't have a great university without a great library.

John Donne

Death is an ascension to a better library.

Joe Jonas

I've got my library card and i'm checking you out!

Holbrook Jackson

Your library is your portrait.

Jorge Luis Borges

In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Jorge Luis Borges

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

Lois McMaster Bujold

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Eric Schlosser

I went into the library and read about fast food and became amazed by all the stuff I didn't know. I learned that there is a whole world behind the counter that, it seemed to me, has been deliberately hidden from the public.