106 quotes found
“It was an epoch of her life, an hour never to be forgotten, this first coming into relation with a really noble library.”
“There is a canyon within a reasonable distance of nearly every school in the city," [Elaine Brooks] pointed out. What an exciting prospect, she said - a network of natural libraries for teaching ch...”
“Let's go downtown," Dad said. "By the public library. You never know what wild and crazy things might be happening at the library.”
“...There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.”
“Note found in the patron suggestion box:"You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don't be quiet. They laugh out loud and talk out loud. Libraries used to be quiet, but th...”
“Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I had to do was find it.”
“In the Library you took your good times where you could find them.”
“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
“I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be l...”
“The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.”
“Anyone who thinks this world is without magic, hasn't been to a library.”
“A man's library opens up his character to the world.”
“Standing before the worn books and dusty shelves, she seemed like a ray of light in the windowless room.”
“Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening. twisting flock of birds that could never fall to earth.”
“Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.”
“Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.”
“First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.”
“Lord Peter's library was one of the most delightful bachelor rooms in London. Its scheme was black and primrose; its walls were lined with rare editions, and its chairs and Chesterfield sofa sugges...”
“"Since I could only take six books per visit from the library, I had to time it right, or I'd be stuck on Sundays rereading the five Reader's Digest Condensed Books sitting on our red laquered liv...”
“The record store was a place of escape. It was a library and a clubhouse” - Cameron Crowe quoted”
