Library Quotes

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'

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.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.

A library is thought in cold storage.

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.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing?

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.