Quotes of: Library-book Keyword

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

Walter Wager

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

Zadie Smith

Sam hauled open the library door. "There you are!" Whit pushed up from the desk he'd been hunched over. "We thought you two had given up on us." "Unlike some people I know," I said, removing my mittens and scarf, "we don't live here." "She says that ...

Incarnate

Como todos los hombres de la Biblioteca, he viajado en mi juventud; he peregrinado en busca de un libro, acaso del catálogo de catálogos; ahora que mis ojos casi no pueden descifrar lo que escribo, me preparo a morir a unas pocas leguas del hexágo...

The Library of Babel

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s what part of it means to be alive. But inside our heads — at least that’s where I imagine it — there’s ...

Kafka on the Shore

Library stacks from this perspective are not a repository; they are a crowd.

Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge

Neither would you, had you grown up in a library of melodramatic romance novels.

EL32

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

Infinite Jest

Who would have ever thought going to a library would be so scary?

Sacrifice: A New Dawn

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

Libriomancer

Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.

Magic in the Backyard

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

J. Patrick Lewis

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.

Patricia A. McKillip

I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Ray Bradbury

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

Robert Darnton

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

Roger Ebert

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

Samuel Davies

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

T.S. Eliot

I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, “Poems of the Gifts

Tatyana Eckstrand

Civilized nations build libraries; lands that have lost their soul close them down.

Toby Forward

‎The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

Kurt Vonnegut