Quotes of: Public-library Keyword

Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight.

Fangirl

The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.

Gary Wolf

To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.

The House of Paper

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

My Reading Life

Let’s make love in the library—in the romance section.

Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

The Weird Sisters

...better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table.

Nathanael West

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

Penelope Lively

The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

Tom T. Hall

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

John Waters

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

Jonathan Zittrain

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

Mark Foley

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.

Jose Serrano

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.

Cornelia Funke

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

Maira Kalman

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

Rabindranath Maharaj

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

Brewster Kahle

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

Dolly Parton

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