A library: Where we can shhhh people without offense.
He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
Effie Trinket: The library, all mahogany...
I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World War II, the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and the fall of...
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened wi...
The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it, something difficult to understand unless you had spent your evenings there or walked past it on the way to celebrate the boat race, a ma...
A library cannot be made all at once, any more than a house or a nation or a tree; they must all take time to grow, and so must a library. I wouldn't even know what books to go and ask for. I dare say, if I were to try, I couldn't at a moment's notic...
My wish is to create a huge library of books.
I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.
Is there anything so delicious as the first exploration of a great library - alone - unwatched?
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.
Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library.
A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.
One of the great advantages of having a library,your eminence, is that it is full of books.
