106 quotes found
“It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last...”
“The world is quiet here.”
“I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.”
“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
“We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
“When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians w...”
“I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.”
“...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library.”
“Those afternoons in the library, breathing the stale sun-warmed dust of a thousand stories (accented by the collective mildew of a hundred years of rising damp), had been enchanted.”
“I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and it was better to start early, but my favorite books were fairy tales.”
“It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the floor near my father's desk. A library is of course a real place, but it is also an unreal...”
“That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past.”
“The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.”
“Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. ”
“Sis took Eva to the public library and showed her how to get a card. Every week, Eva read her way through the works of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, Henry James and Elizabeth Gask...”
“Library: The Temple of the Wise!”
“Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.”
“That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to...”
“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
“This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.”
