Quotes by Library Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. Robert Bly fertilelibrarypersons I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library. Rick Riordan libraryqualms-aboutbook People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there. Robert D. Putnam librarymaypeople My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries. Robert Darnton libraryhistoricaltaken In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn't permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything. Robert Darnton librarygooglebook It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. Robert Darnton libraryimportantschool The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and information. It is a haven of privacy, a source of both cultural and intellectual sustenance for the individual reader. Since it is thus committed to free and open inquiry on a personal basis, the Library must remain open, with access to it always guaranteed. Robert G. Vosper libraryintellectualideas Every library is an arsenal. Robert Green Ingersoll libraryarsenal The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders. Robert Hughes librarychoicesleader I am a bookworm. For play, I bury myself in the corners of libraries and read. Robert Littell bookwormslibraryplay Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses. Robert Mayer librarynumbersscience I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush. Robin Ince hushpercentageslibrary Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits. Robin Sloan libraryspiritsleep A Library goes on as far as thought can reach. Robertson Davies librarygoes-on Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries. Robin Sharma libraryordinarypeople A library should be like a pair of open arms. Roger Rosenblatt librarypairsreading Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries. Robin Sharma librarygiantsordinary The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it. Ronald Reagan librarydoorspeople The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants. Roy Blount, Jr. librarypantsfirsts A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions. Roy Blount, Jr. librarythousandcards«3132333435363738394041»
