Quotes by Library If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. Wendell H. Ford libraryinformationdemocracy Choose an author as you would a friend. Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon library When something is discovered by people in movie theaters, it's discovered by people who are all together, and there's a sort of feeling of an event about it. And when it's on video, it's like something is being discovered in the library or something. It's like having a second life in public libraries. It's just like individuals, and it's less of a... We can't participate in it the same way. Wes Anderson libraryfeelingspeople Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice. Will Durant librarymankindthinking No libraries, no progress. Willard Scott libraryprogress He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour. William Godwin libraryflavordishes There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. William Hazlitt librarybookart There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions of the matter--and hide things lest they should be lost, where neither the owner nor anybody else can find them. This is a sort of magpie faculty. If anything is left where you want it, it is called litter. There is a pedantry in housewifery, as well as in the gravest concerns. Abraham Tucker complained that whenever his maid servant had been in his library, he could not see comfortably to work again for several days. William Hazlitt libraryorderbook Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries? William James librarycatdog Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it. William Hazlitt librarybookworld I'm in the film industry, and I very seldom go to the theater now. It could be work, not being in New York, that sort thing - because in New York, you do go to theaters; you can walk to a theater and then walk to a restaurant. But in places you have to drive out to the cineplex to see a movie, it's starting not to be worth it anymore. It's like the days when you went to get a book at the public library. You don't have to do that anymore. You just go on your iPad and all of a sudden you're reading The Duchess of Malfi. William Monahan libraryreadingbook I have a library room with four desks in it. On one of them is a spec, on one of them is a present work, on one of them is reading for a future work, on another desk is a novel I'm not doing until I'm a hundred and fifty, and things like that. But, contractually speaking, you just do one at a time when it's on and paid and live. You do your real day on one project and the rest is just literary life. Or intrusions. William Monahan libraryrealreading Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. William Osler librarysainthumanity For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him. William Osler librarywellsused A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences. William Osler libraryweaknessmind I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library. William Shakespeare librarymessengersbook Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. William Styron librarylonelinessreading Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow. William Shakespeare librarysorrowchoices Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library. Winston Churchill libraryleisuremen Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough. William Shakespeare tempestlibrarymen«3940414243444546474849»
