Quotes about library
library littles function
A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles. Umberto Eco
library bones graveyard
Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library. Pete Seeger
library needs world
Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need. Peter Singer
library research renaissance
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
library
A library implies an act of faith. Victor Hugo
library persons fertile
Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. Robert Bly
library librarian
Libraries are where it all begins. Rita Dove
library world bookstores
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. Richard Russo
library arsenal
Every library is an arsenal. Robert Green Ingersoll
library goes-on
A Library goes on as far as thought can reach. Robertson Davies
library sanctuary spirit
To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Virginia Woolf
library flavor dishes
He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. William Godwin
library world would-be
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually. James A. Michener
library lists titles
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue. Jeanette Winterson
library public-library
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. Jerzy Kosinski
library tiny firsts
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories. Georges Bernanos
library bookstores politics
Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore. George Carlin
library shrines saint
Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. Francis Bacon
library different weapons
It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room." Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in the library or the weapons room or any of the other places he's usually ridiculous? Cassandra Clare
library town
It's dated, but it's very nice. It could be used for the library if the town wanted to use it for that.
library medicine mind
A library is a repository of medicine for the mind
library saws mustard
I saw you in the library. With—” “ Colonel Mustard?
library church bookstores
...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church. Jim C. Hines
library wizards computer
Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries. Jim Butcher
library invited
A library is a feast to which we are all invited. Katherine Paterson
library public-library
The public library is the great equaliser. Keith Richards
library cases humans
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. Georg C. Lichtenberg
library rooms murder
A library is a room where the murders take place. J. B. Morton
library example variation
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
library paradise kind
Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
library mars public regional
The Le Mars Public library is a regional resource.
library world stuff
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. Eric Schlosser
library world deals
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe