Quotes by Library There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall. Al Yankovic library cutting guy Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone. Alan Bennett library smell confusing It was the kind of library he had only read about in books. Alan Bennett library kind book I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me. Alan Moore library opportunity today The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library. Albert Einstein library addresses persons Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion. Alberto Manguel preference library exclusion Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence. Alberto Manguel library shade absence If the Library of Alexandria was the emblem of our ambition of omniscience, the Web is the emblem of our ambition of omnipresence; the library that contained everything has become the library that contains anything. Alberto Manguel alexandria library ambition At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. Alberto Manguel library voice night Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. Alberto Manguel library kitchen book In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Alberto Manguel library empty long Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order. Alberto Manguel library vision order I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library. Alberto Manguel library book thinking We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are. Alberto Manguel library dream book I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books. Alberto Manguel library together book If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be. Alberto Manguel library reader reflection It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed. Alberto Manguel library matter giving During the day, the library is a realm of order. Alberto Manguel library realms order Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power. Alberto Manguel library authority seems The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. Alberto Manguel encyclopedia library world 1234567891011»
