Quotes by Library Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick. Kate Mosse librarybrickswatches The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated. Katharine Sharp librarystudentspeople What in the world would we do without our libraries? Katharine Hepburn librarykidsworld A library is a feast to which we are all invited. Katherine Paterson invitedlibrary We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets. Kathy Bates librarysecretbook The public library is the great equaliser. Keith Richards public-librarylibrary I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives. Ken Burns archiveslibrarythinking I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users. Ken Jennings librarysmellcities This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces. Kenneth Clark libraryachievementanimal Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of the first autonomous things we do, picking the books we want to read. Kim Boykin libraryfalling-in-lovebook Though Lexington is not a small town, it sometimes feels like one, with circles of acquaintance overlapping once, then again; the person you meet by chance at the library or the pool may turn out to be the best friend of your down-the-street neighbor. Maybe thats why people are so friendly here, so willing to be unhurried. Kim Edwards librarycirclespeople Once you know what it is in life that you want to do, then the world basically becomes your library. Everything you view, you can view from that perspective, which makes everything a learning asset for you. Kobe Bryant libraryperspectiveworld It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al) Kim Harrison librarychocolatebook I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things. Kurt Masur librarymusicalmistake There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries. Kwame Dawes library The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. Kurt Vonnegut deskslibraryamerica ...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE Kurt Vonnegut foyerslibraryignorance Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library. Larry McMurtry libraryhomebook Most young dealers of the Silicon Chip Era regard a reference library as merely a waste of space. Old Timers on the West Coast seem to retain a fondness for reference books that goes beyond the practical. Everything there is to know about a given volume may be only a click away, but there are still a few of us who'd rather have the book than the click. A bookman's love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them. Larry McMurtry libraryspacebook Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside. Laura Bush sagelibraryage«1920212223242526272829»
