Quotes of: Public-library Keyword

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

The Great Gatsby

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

Blue Dahlia

The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

Kate Mosse

There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.

Annabelle Selldorf

THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!

Arcadia

I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.

Willow Shields

Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

A Room of One's Own

The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me

The Sound of Letting Go

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination.

Moranthology

I’m a book lover. I’ve probably already fucked a whole library.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

The Lucky Chance, Or, the Alderman's Bargain

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

Snuff

Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

The Slippery Slope

The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its essence, but that it was .

Overdue Notice: Poems from the Library

OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.

Okay for Now

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 16: November 1789 to July 1790

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

The Passage

...and where shall we go from here? The Library is vast and infinite.

R.O.D. Read or Die: Yomiko Readman 1