Quotes of: Public-library Keyword

I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term.

Anthony Browne

... my heart skips a beat. Seriously, like a CD from the public library, it goes ZZebbTTT and skips.

Carter Finally Gets It

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

Ham on Rye

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

Peter Singer

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library.

Karin Slaughter

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them." [ , February 22, 1894]

Mark Twain

I didn't belong to the sort of family where the children's classics were laid on. I went to the public library and read everything I could get my hands on.

Pat Barker

Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking past can find it.

Francis Spufford

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

Charles Kuralt

I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

Denis O'Hare

Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining,’ it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs.

Alan Gibson

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

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

The Poisonwood Bible

The Poet at the Breakfast Table: My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - all four acts of it.

Peter Shaffer

Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely from a model created in Rome several thousand years ago.

Stephen Greenblatt

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Keith Richards

A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.

Melvil Dewey

A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a...

Margaret Geller