Libraries Quotes

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapeast way information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.

One can never have too many librarian friends

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Not having to go to a library is a very important improvement in providing library service.

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared…to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free of them there.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.

A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'