Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Beverly Cleary

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Barbara Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

bell hooks

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Diana Wynne Jones

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

Diana Wynne Jones

A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought.

Daniel Handler

When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

Daniel Handler

There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.

Charles Bukowski

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

Deb Caletti

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

Diane Setterfield

What better place to kill time than a library?

David McCullough

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

David Strathairn

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

Thomas Jefferson

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

We're going to get a new library here.

Bill Watterson

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

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.

Bill Moyers

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

Italo Calvino

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

Neil Gaiman

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

Neil Gaiman

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

John Waters

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

Nick Bostrom

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

Seth Grahame-Smith

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

Seth Grahame-Smith

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

Rajneesh

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

Ray Bradbury

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

Ray Bradbury

... bums on the outside, libraries inside.