Library Quotes - Page 37

• Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

  Karl Shapiro

  Wise, Unique, Doe

  Karl Jay Shapiro (2004). “Creative Glut: Selected Essays of Karl Shapiro”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Why buy a book when you can join a library?

  Ricky Gervais

  Book

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Mar 29, 2016

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• 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

  Educational, Heart, Age

  "Author, author: Kate Mosse". www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.

  Bill Gates

  Opportunity, Hands, Cards

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• One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Father, Book, Responsibility

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• The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's
  sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of
  ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

  Amy Bloom

  Children, Ignorance, Sanctuary

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• Libraries are the pride of the city.

  Amy Tan

  Pride, Cities

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• I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

  Jane Austen

  Common, Trash, Novel

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• Medicine for the soul.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Science, Medicine, Soul

  Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes. I. 49. 3.,

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• Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Research, Management, Volume

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.491, Oxford University Press

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• To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number; to oblige the most fertile genius to say only what is new, would be to contract his volumes to a few pages. Yet, surely, there ought to be some bounds to repetition; libraries ought no more to be heaped for ever with the same thoughts differently expressed, than with the same books differently decorated.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• 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".

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Book, Humor

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• The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, College, Thinking

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• The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.

  Albert Payson Terhune

  Friendship, Dog, Pain

  Albert Payson Terhune (1921). “Buff: a Collie: And Other Dog-stories”

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• 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.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Distance, Book, Home

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• Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country that will not stock a book by a Negro writer, not even as a gift? There are towns where Negro newspapers and magazines cannot be sold except surreptitiously. There are American magazines that have never published anything by Negroes. There are film studios that have never hired a Negro writer. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

  Langston Hughes

  Country, Book, Color

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• Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, Fall, Reading

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.286, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor...Museums, like theaters and libraries, are a means to freedom.

  Wendy Beckett

  Country, Art, Mean

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• It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

  Marian Burros

  Food, Cooking, May

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• A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

  Stephen King

  Waiting, Today, Thousand

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• There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

  Frank Delaney

  Love You, Heart, Mind

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• A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its destined reader, come when he may, with eager hand and seeing eye. Then occurs one of the great examples of union, that of a man with a book, pleasurable, sometimes fruitful, potentially world-changing, simple; and in a library...witho ut cost to the reader.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Mean, Eye

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

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• He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Reading, Attention

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• Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what in French is called esprit de l'escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought, like a clever reply that would have stunned all the other dinner guests - if only you had thought of it before walking down the stairs after the party is over.

  Bertrand Meyer

  Running, Clever, Party

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• Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

  Michael Caine

  Growing Up, Book, Elephants

  "This much I know". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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