Library Quotes - Page 29

• I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Four, Public Library

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• The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, People, Judgement

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

  David Mamet

  Educational, Reading, Foundation

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• If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.

  Andrew Carnegie

  School, Community, Should

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• Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

  Nikola Tesla

  Father, Reading, Book

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.8, Lulu.com

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• Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Book, Years

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 17: Sermons 968 to 1027”, p.762, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Flirting, Volume, Flirtation

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1845). “Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil”, p.151

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• Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.

  Louis Nizer

  Education, Morning, Law

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1984

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• 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.

  Katherine Moennig

  Funny, Friendship, Growing Up

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• If you do not have the time to read, you do not have the time to lead.

  Phillip C. Schlechty

  Business, Ifs

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

  Sarah J. Maas

  Powerful, Ideas, Weapons

  Sarah J. Maas (2012). “Throne of Glass”, p.51, A&C Black

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• My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.

  Paula Spencer

  Identity, Branches, Reader

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• My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books.

  Sarah Bird

  Believe, Book, Grateful

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• Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Natural, Complexity, Biodiversity

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• Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library."

  Austin Kleon

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.20, Workman Publishing

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• Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife Fund Executive Vice President, stating the need to conserve biodiversity, even plants and animals having no immediate use, as a unique repository of genes for possible future biogengineering applications.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Animal, Unique, President

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• Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books.

  Richard Allington

  Education, Book, School

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• By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Reading, Historical, Mind

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• There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.

  Wendell Berry

  Life, Data, Differences

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• New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, New York, Humor

  "E=MO²". Video, 1985.

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• As a child, I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books, and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there, I wanted to make loads of money.

  Julie Burchill

  Children, Book, Two

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• If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Father, Names, Events

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• Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

  David Baldacci

  Book, Kids, Rocks

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• Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Writing, Mean, Ideas

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.15, Random House

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• Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

  Assata Shakur

  Book, College, Practice

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