Quotes of: Library Keyword

You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library ... A Library should be full of exclamations! ... A Library should be full of now-just-a-minutes and that-can't-be-rights and scienti...

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there’s this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet and not to run. But the thing was, that lady—that iconoclastic lady—was with us when we cleaned. S...

Scott Douglas

Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, ...

Katherine Paterson

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from ...

Ray Bradbury

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

The Library at Night

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

The Library at Night

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

The Library at Night

During the day, the library is a realm of order.

The Library at Night

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

The Library at Night

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

The Library at Night

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

The Library at Night

A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. ...

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

As a kid, I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays, and I would walk home at night. For several years, I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I move...

Neil Gaiman

The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

The Library of Babel

The Library is a sphere whose exact centre is any one of its hexagons and whose circumference is inaccessible.

The Library of Babel

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

The Library at Night

The weight of absence is as much a feature of any library as the constriction of order and space.

The Library at Night

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

The Library at Night

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we've seen with the Internet's development.

Noam Chomsky

A silent Library is a Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines full of up-to-the-minute politickal fashions and atlases and plays in pentameter! A Library should be full of exclamations! Shouts of d...

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

The Library at Night