Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Mosse

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

Kami Garcia

I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

Patrick Carman

I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

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.

Mary Higgins Clark

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

Pat Conroy

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

Noam Chomsky

If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.

Patti Smith

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

Marian Burros

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

Oprah Winfrey

Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.

LeVar Burton

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

Katherine Paterson

A library is a feast to which we are all invited.

Keith Richards

The public library is the great equaliser.

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.

Ray Bradbury

A library is all the university you will ever need.

Ray Bradbury

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Ray Bradbury

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

Ray Bradbury

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

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.

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.

Milla Jovovich

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

Paula Fox

Freedom is a public library.

Philip Roth

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

Peter Drucker

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

Matthew Lesko

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

Maya Angelou

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

Laurie R. King

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.