libraries Quotes

“Libraries were full of ideas - perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”

“Boys like him didn’t die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.”

“My library was dukedom large enough.”

“Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been.”

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.‘”

“Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world.”

“Saturdays were different. She treated herself by reading a book not in the alphabetical sequence. On that day she asked the librarian to recommend a book.”

“She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.”

“Run like you have to get to the library.”

“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”

“When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.”

“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”

in principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder

I thanked Captain Nemo, and went up to the shelves of the library. Works on science, morals, and literature abounded in every language; but I did not see one single work on political economy; that subject appeared to be strictly proscribed. Strange to say, all these books were irregularly arranged, in whatever language they were written; and this medley proved that the Captain of the Nautilus must have read indiscriminately the books which he took up by chance.

″‘What’s a big word for ‘library’?′ Charles asked his tutor. ‘Teachers love big words.‘”

“This library is like a good book. You just gotta check it out!”

“What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?”