Library Quotes - Page 39

• I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that will enrich your life. Read it on your own time. I trust that you will bring it back when you are finished.' It might be the most civilized, forward-thinking institution in America. Perhaps the only one, in fact.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, America, Facts

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• The Bön texts are thousands of years old, and I am sure that not even 7 percent of what is still in monasteries, libraries and caves has been translated. Even without taking into consideration the spiritual aspect, Bön should be preserved as a treasure for humanity just for its cultural aspect.

  Anne Klein

  Spiritual, Years, Humanity

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• A library is a room where the murders take place.

  J. B. Morton

  Rooms, Murder

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• The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Pants, Firsts, Excited

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• A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Cards, Thousand, Millions

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• I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice.
  You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

  Warren Buffett

  Book, Thinking, Mind

  "BRK Annual Meeting 2007 Tilson Notes". Buffett FAQ, buffettfaq.com. 2007.

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• When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Old Man, Dies

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• Support your libraries... or else!

  Margaret Atwood

  Support

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• To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sanctuary, Spirit, Authority

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2597, Delphi Classics

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• When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

  Jane Austen

  House, Miserable, Excellent

  Jane Austen (2013). “The Jane Austen Library: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Watsons, Sanditon”, p.64, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

  Ray Bradbury

  World, Want, Factories

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• I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.

  Arthur Ashe

  Littles, Too Much, Fields

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• But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Circles, Looks

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.293, Melville House

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• Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

  Clifford Stoll

  Data, Fifty, Information

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• Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

  Arthur Miller

  Girl, Blow, Intelligent

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.

  Sara Paretsky

  Mom, Baby, Book

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• When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Book, Age

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Reading, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

  Neil Gaiman

  Past, Voice, Culture

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

  E. B. White

  Book, May, Places To Go

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• I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

  Gregory Colbert

  Teacher, School, My Time

  "Dances With Whales". Interview with Alan Riding, www.nytimes.com. April 22, 2002.

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• Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!

  Marilyn Johnson

  Courses

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• Real life is a story, too, only much more complicated. It’s still got a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everyone follows the same rules, you know. . . It’s just that there are more of them. Everyone has chapters and cliffhangers. Everyone has their journey to make. Some go far and wide and come back empty-handed; some don’t go anywhere and their journey makes them richest of all. Some tales have a moral and some don’t make any sense. Some will make you laugh, others make you cry. The world is a library, young Poison, and you’ll never get to read the same book twice.

  Chris Wooding

  Real, Book, Journey

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• If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.

  Matt Damon

  Home, Bored, Lines

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• Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

  David Strathairn

  Book, Television, Film

  Interview with Ray Pride, moviecitynews.com. October 28, 2005.

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