I deserve a swift kick in the shorts for all the times I’ve stubbornly wound my way through the library stacks, my mule head leading the way, searching fruitlessly for information a librarian could put...

The visitor enters and says, “What a lot of books! Have you read them all?” …The best answer is the one always used by Roberto Leydi: “And more, dear sir, many more,” which freezes the...

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the...

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

I had a friend once who looked at his library and discovered that even if he completely stopped filmmaking (he was a filmmaker too) and just decided to read the books he had in his...

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son, each one stitched...

You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.’ She pointed to the shelf opposite. ‘Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a...

She sighed and looked at him sympathetically. ‘Cool flame tricks aside, there’s no competition.’He lifted his eyebrow. ‘Library wins?”Every single time.

Você constrói mil castelos, mil santuários, você não é nada; você constrói uma biblioteca, você é tudo

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

The library was still giving trouble: a few books in some of the more obscure corners of the stacks retained some autonomy, dating back to an infamous early experiment with flying books, and lately they’d...

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you...

Bibliothèque Nationale. Ich sitze und lese einen Dichter. Es sind viele Leute im Saal, aber man spürt sie nicht. Sie sind in den Büchern. Manchmal bewegen sie sich in den Blättern, wie Menschen, die schlafen...

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

First paycheck I get, I thought, I’m going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong...

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

LibrariesAreNeccessaryGardens,UnsurpassedAtGrowingExcitement

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

[D]on’t ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that’s what they’re there for. Use your library). Don’t apologize to this author for buying books second...

Planting a flower’s like opening a book, because either way you’re starting something. And your garden’s your library.

Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sevres china every day?

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 children about...

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.

En África, cuando un anciano muere, una biblioteca arde, toda una biblioteca desaparece, sin necesidad de que las llamas acaben con el papel

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child...

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.

The house I grew up in is one of a kind. It’s a bibliophile’s fantasy, and if the Library of Congress had a little brother who was a midget, you could find him residing in...

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.

I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.)...

Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.

The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson’s education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them.

Blaming the library for exposure to pornography is like blaming the lake if your child walks up to it alone, falls in and then drowns. – David Sawyer, Spokesman-Review, 18 December 2000

To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

Why can’t I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!

History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.

It has long been my belief that everyone’s library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library,...

A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbidden...

I’m a book lover. I’ve probably already fucked a whole library.

Oh, wow.””What do you think?””I tried to imagine, but–I mean…it’s so much more–“”Think it’s large enough to keep you satisfied for a while?””It’s so much bigger than I expected”He backed away, leaving Beatrice to gaze...

Every library is a palace; every book is a king; every reading is a magic!

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

Everybody comes to the library naked. That’s why they come here – to dress themselves in books.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James,...

Somhow those Ten Men — at the time they were called Recruiters, of course — discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it...

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

She’d absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn’t own and feel no remorse about it.