Quotes by category:Library

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! by Jane Austen

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!

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A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.

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When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not... by Jane Austen

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

library miserable house

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

librarian library culture

First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library.

library office people

Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.

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

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I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days... by Jane Austen

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

darcy library neglect

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every d... by Jean Fritz

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

library reading book

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

Jean-Paul Sartre

library important book

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

Jeanette Winterson

library lying people

sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it

Jeannette Walls

library track book

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

Jeanette Winterson

library titles lists

Yesterday all five living presidents gathered for the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas. Well, six living presidents if you count Hillary in 2016.

library presidential yesterday

When we say we can pull resources away from libraries, from culture, from those parts of the education system that are not about utility, what we are really saying is that the life of the mind is unnecessary.

Jeanette Winterson

library mind culture

I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library. by Jennifer Estep

I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.

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Libraries help you to dream! by Jennifer L. Holm

Libraries help you to dream!

Jennifer L. Holm

library dream helping

What was it with people always trying to kill me in the library? Nickamedes so needed to put up warning signs. Danger: Working here could be hazardous to your health.

library always-trying people

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

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With enough libraries, all content is free. by Jessamyn West

With enough libraries, all content is free.