106 quotes found
“You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!”
“First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.”
“The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world.""And yet with a bigger library we could come ever so much closer.”
“The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the...”
“With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.”
“It's like a sealed, forgotten chamber in me; I shan't feel complete until I've discovered its entrance.' 'Sounds like a tomb. Aren't you afraid of what you'll find in there?' 'It's a library; only ...”
“Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the comm...”
“Theres a vast fraternity of record collectors, and the record store was their hub. There was not a lot of information on these groups or the labels so youd gather [there] and it would be like a lib...”
“Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
“A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.”
“She did find that the books displayed prominently in every chamber had been dusted, but the spines were pristine and uncreased. They had the sad, untouched air of literature paraded for display pur...”
“Library is direction where wisdom start and ignorance end.”
“Books will give you new ideas to fly and books can be find in the libraries”
“He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.”
“This sense of possibility might not last, of course Nothing ever did. But she wasnt going to spoil it by looking too far ahead. They were safe in the Library, and the Library would endure.”
“The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
“That would make it the fifth time since I'd started working at the university that I'd thrown someone out of one of those rooms for inappropriate behavior. And they say a library is a boring place ...”
“Democracy or reading, democracy of space: our public library tradition, wherever we live in the wide world, was incredibly hard-won for us by the generations before us and ought to be protected, no...”
“During the day, the library is a realm of order.”
“Again, I don't fully understand my emotion response to the library or trust it. It was the site of a series of intellectual revelations that were crucial to me, not just as a student but as a human...”
