Quotes by Library It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out. N. T. Wright librarymadpeople A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie. Nancy Reagan libraryluckyyears Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones. Nassim Nicholas Taleb libraryownersbook My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London. Natascha McElhone oasislibrarylondon Read books. They are good for us. Natalie Goldberg librarybook Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume. Nathaniel Parker Willis libraryflirtingvolume As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of the smart people to come together in one place where they can interact with one another. Neal Stephenson librarysmartpeople 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 libraryvoicepast Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism. Neil Gaiman libraryredcivilization A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. Neil Gaiman librarycitizensgiving Libraries really are the gates to the future. Neil Gaiman gateslibrary For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money. Neil Gaiman librarycornlittles The function of a great library is to store obscure books. Nicholson Baker libraryobscurebook The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website. Nick Bostrom digginglibraryresearch I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared. Nicholson Baker librarytasksbook Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children. Nick Cave librarycommunitychildren In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits. Nicolas Chamfort librarymenorder Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy! Nigel Dennis libraryagencybook Libraries...house our dreams. Nikki Giovanni librarydreamhouse The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet. Nikky Finney librarysacredspace«2526272829303132333435»
