With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.
My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts.
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go 'aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.
Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.
I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.
I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.
It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.
A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?
It was an epoch of her life, an hour never to be forgotten, this first coming into relation with a really noble library.
Some people write letters, in the library.
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of the playground, having broken a tooth in dodge ball, and lying under my covers with a flashlight.
I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balz...
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious.'
