Quotes of: Public-library Keyword

I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

Alexander Payne

We journalists tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry S Truman

In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.

Victor Ponta

And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

Warren Beatty

they should let some people into the library by prescription only

Choke

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

Forever

I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.

Glory Be

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

The Bookseller

My library is an archive of longings.

As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.

Eric Idle

Anyone who thinks this world is without magic, hasn't been to a library.

Audition & Subtraction

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

Hexwood

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

Looking for Alaska

An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.

In the Light of What We Know: A Novel

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

The Summer Without Men

Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.

Throne of Glass

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

The Pleasures of Life

Ereaders were a great convenience, but nothing could beat the smell of a library and old books.

Taste

What better place to kill time than a library?

The Thirteenth Tale

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

George Mercer Dawson