A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire p...
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 day of the week, when the rest of the world is havin...
Fourteen is the age when time first starts to make its presence felt. Time took on such a variety of hues in those days that even my frozen mind sometimes reflected the colours of the world around me, and I could feel my thoughts fluttering in the hu...
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks ...
Desire overwhelmed me once she had gone. But it was not a desire for Homer. I had to return to the library. I could already smell the books' muskiness and in my mind turned over pages with as many differing textures as a forest; pages that were britt...
Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.
I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.
How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.
At certain rare moments, a library is a kind of mind.
I was diagnosed with diabetes at age 18. I didn't know what it was, so I went to the library and looked it up.
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card." [ ]
Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
