Library Quotes - Page 34

• The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Book, Ideas, And Love

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.8, Random House

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• Libraries
  Are
  Neccessary
  Gardens,
  Unsurpassed
  At
  Growing
  Excitement

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Garden, Growing, Excitement

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• We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

  Hugo Ball

  Beautiful, Heart, Age

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• Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.

  Louis Nizer

  Morning, Law, Lucky

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• Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

  Vartan Gregorian

  Wise, Stupid, Unique

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• A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

  Vicki Myron

  Book, Reading, People

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• Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

  John Braine

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

  "The New York Times", October 7, 1962.

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• A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow's book buyers for today's dollars, especially when it's obvious that the source in question doesn't have any more dollars to give you.

  Courtney Milan

  Stupid, Book, Reading

  "On eating your seed corn". www.courtneymilan.com. February 25, 2011.

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• A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

  Vicki Myron

  Beautiful, People, Community

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• As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

  Anita Diament

  Years, Library Research, Doing Me

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• Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Money, Heart, Mean

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• This is an extremely foolish and stupid and idiotic kind of attitude - to expect theatres to make money. Do the public schools make money? Do libraries make money? Does the zoo make money? D o the sewers make money? It's a community service.

  John Hirsch

  Zoos, Attitude, Stupid

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• Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Information, Facts, Spokes

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• Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent. Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.

  Ben Macintyre

  Falling In Love, Educational, Reading

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• The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further - universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically doable

  Brewster Kahle

  Dream, Opportunity, Alexandria

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• I love to read, but I didn't know how I could keep up with my eyes, ... But I remembered that the library had books on tape, so I started listening to them. You wouldn't believe how much they have brought to my life.

  Dorothy Bryant

  Believe, Book, Eye

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• In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Twenties, Example, Variation

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.57, New Directions Publishing

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• As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.

  Sam Ewing

  Children, Doe, Cards

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• This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Animal, Essence, Class

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.450

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• Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

  Nick Flynn

  Lying, Glasses, Church

  Nick Flynn (2010). “Being Flynn (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Editions)”, p.201, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The best place to find things: the public library.

  Edward Bernays

  Best Place, Public Library

  "The Father of Spin". Book by Larry Tye, p. 102, 1998.

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• Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate the dire forecasts of which we're already so aware.

  David Quammen

  Important, Climate, Research

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• I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns.  I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

  Jandy Nelson

  Expression, Heard, Dies

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

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• I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.

  Jackson Pearce

  Long, Comfort

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