Quotes of: Library-book Keyword

I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

Stacy Schiff

Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.

Brewster Kahle

In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.

David Gerrold

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

Karen DeCrow

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

Deb Caletti

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

Louis Nizer

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

EL Doctorow

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Germaine Greer

My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

Jodi Picoult

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

Jerzy Kosinski

[Finding a hidden passage in a Venetian library] Indiana Jones: "X" marks the spot.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Germaine Greer

We need to bridge the gap between the medical libraries and the hospital rooms; take the information out there already, add to it, focus it, harness it - and bring it to the patient who was just diagnosed today.

Bruce Vento

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

Augustine Birrell

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

Archibald MacLeish

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

Al Yankovic

Some people read books on musicians, while I read music books. Not books on music, but literally books full of sheet music. Fascinating reading.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

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The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

The Great Gatsby

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.

Grasshopper Jungle