Quotes of: Libraries Keyword

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Neil Gaiman

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

Robert Darnton

When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I didn't have, and I could order this environment in the way that I couldn't in my actual life. Then, when I learned to write, I learned that...

The Donald Richie Reader: 50 Years of Writing on Japan

My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library indeed. Under the slightly blackened rafters and more than slightly caved-in walls, my mother lived and read and dreamed, al...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Of course, he showed me this one afternoon when he was skipping class. When trolls cut classes, you think they are losers. When the beautiful and/or reasonably erudite do the same thing to sit on the library steps and read poetry, you think they are ...

Zombies Vs. Unicorns

... my heart skips a beat. Seriously, like a CD from the public library, it goes ZZebbTTT and skips.

Carter Finally Gets It

I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work

Dirty Work

He’s at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books... Maybe he’ll write one someday.

The End of Forever

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 Great Gatsby

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

Blue Dahlia

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

Kate Mosse

There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.

Annabelle Selldorf

THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!

Arcadia

I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.

Willow Shields

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

Ham on Rye

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

A Room of One's Own

The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me

The Sound of Letting Go

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination.

Moranthology