Library Quotes - Page 10

• You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Crazy, Book, Writing

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• I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them--with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself.

  Eudora Welty

  Book, Smell, Paper

  Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”

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• As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Book, School

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• For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

  Pete Hamill

  Imagination, House, Treasure

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• If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

  Wendell H. Ford

  Democracy, Information, Librarian

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• A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Business, Men, Brain

  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) "Five Orange Pips"

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• Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

  Augustine Birrell

  Book, Reading, Librarian

  Augustine Birrell (1969). “Obiter Dicta: Second Series”, p.169, Library of Alexandria

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• Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Humble, Unique

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Book, Cities, Graveyard

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• Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

  Laurel Lea

  Book, Voice, Mind

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• Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Book, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1914). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Success, Education, Intelligent

  Benjamin Disraeli (19??). “Endymion”

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• There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to future generations than your furniture!

  Jim Rohn

  Entrepreneur, Furniture, Three

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 12, 2016

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• What I tell kids is don't get mad (about censorship) get even. Run, don't walk, to the first library you can find, and read what they're trying to keep out of your eyes. Read what they're trying to keep out of your brains. Because that's exactly what you need to know.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Eye, Mad

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• Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.

  Og Mandino

  Years, Veins, Answers

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• The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.

  Phillip Adams

  Book, Addiction, Fierce

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• The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

  Piers Anthony

  Mind, Comfort, Stones

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• Each time someone dies, a library burns.

  Jandy Nelson

  Dies

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.101, Penguin

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• Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

  Joanne Harris

  Wife, Pay, Internet

  Joanne Harris @Joannechocolat, twitter.com. February 14, 2013.

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• A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Work, Sleep, Thinking

  Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.215, Grove Press

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• The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

  Samuel Davies

  Waiting, Nonsense, Mortals

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• If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Reading, Men, Mind

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• People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or advancing their elite positions, thereby lending tacit support to power structures. Or they might not be.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Support, Research

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.

  Seamus Heaney

  Home, Circles, House

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

  Tom Peters

  Age, Resources, Print

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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