Quotes by Library I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. F. Scott Fitzgerald librarydrunkbook Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance. Francis Keppel libraryignoranceweight He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse. F. Scott Fitzgerald librarybricksbook Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons? Fran Lebowitz libraryniceschool My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna. Fran Lebowitz librarydreamwriting What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic buildings needs to be hierarchal in the community. It has to be equal to the library and the courthouse. Frank Gehry librarycommunityart I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own. Frank Miller libraryrunningbook A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library. Frank Westheimer librarycouplemonths Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month? Frank Westheimer laboratorylibrarymonths When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams on the same note. I'd tested her before I burnt the library, and our piano along with it. Rose screams on the note B flat. We don't need a piano anymore now that we have a human tuning fork. Franny Billingsley librarypianorose Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed. Francis Bacon libraryshrinessaint I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them. Franklin D. Roosevelt libraryconvictiondemocracy A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka libraryseabook Once you read, you will be free forever. Frederick Douglass libraryforever Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot. G-Eazy librarytoo-muchparty A library is infinity under a roof. Gail Carson Levine libraryinfinitybook Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff. Gail Zappa librarypianomusician A curious thing happened: the terrains of England began to impinge on my consciousness, altering, then effacing, the world outside the library window… I was wrapped in a pleasurable dreaminess. I was in a better place. If true life existed elsewhere, then I had almost found it. Garry Disher true-lifelibraryworld Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter. Garth Nix librarygirlthinking Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity. Garth Nix librarygoing-awaywriting«910111213141516171819»
