One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library. Votes: 7
Abdul KalamIf you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. Votes: 6
Frank ZappaMy most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. Votes: 4
Bill RussellSurrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. Votes: 4
Jimmy BuffettA library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. Votes: 4
Norman Cousins[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. Votes: 3
Daniel J. BoorstinAll you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. Votes: 3
Studs TerkelWhen I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world. Votes: 3
John GoodmanUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. Votes: 2
Harper LeeIf past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. Votes: 1
Warren BuffettLarger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation. Votes: 0
Stephen D. KrashenThe standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. Votes: 0
Bjarne StroustrupGetting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship. Votes: 0
Oprah WinfreyYou should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyMy first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultThe world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. Votes: 0
Alberto ManguelI walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything. Votes: 0
Augusta ScattergoodClosing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development. Votes: 0
Alan BennettIf you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library. Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithYou can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books. Votes: 0
Joanna TrollopeAnyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. Votes: 0
Germaine GreerA circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. Votes: 0
Richard Brinsley SheridanThe greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinA library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them. Votes: 0
Lois EhlertThere is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone. Votes: 0
Lois McMaster BujoldThe public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next. Votes: 0
John Cotton DanaOne of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. Votes: 0
bell hooksI'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer. Votes: 0
Mark DeverEvery library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion. Votes: 0
Alberto ManguelPeople of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library. Votes: 0
Tom PetersLibrarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians. Votes: 0
Richard ScarryA library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you. Votes: 0
Alan M. DershowitzA library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you. Votes: 0
Alan DershowitzYou get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all... Votes: 0
Terry PratchettHere is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore. Votes: 0
Benjamin CarsonA library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds. Votes: 0
Orson Scott CardThe only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinOver the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul. Votes: 0
Diodorus SiculusThe death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul. Votes: 0
Kurt VonnegutWhy can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system! Votes: 0
Vera BrosgolA library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. Votes: 0
Germaine GreerI keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. Votes: 0
Walter WagerFlirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume. Votes: 0
Nathaniel Parker WillisDo not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. Votes: 0
Desiderius ErasmusHe that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. Votes: 0
William GodwinThe library isâ¦a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated. Votes: 0
Katharine SharpMy great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. Votes: 0
Alan GarnerRumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. Votes: 0
Robert BlyScholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Votes: 0
Peter SingerWhen I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. Votes: 0
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneMaybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list. Votes: 0
Kellie ElmoreIt was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyHis mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss. Votes: 0
Charlotte BronteOne day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library. Votes: 0
Richelle MeadWhat a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. Votes: 0
Harold HoweMy very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. Votes: 0
Paula SpencerEvery library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library. Votes: 0
J. K. RowlingThe study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. Votes: 0
Herbert HooverPeople may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there. Votes: 0
Robert D. PutnamOnly library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. Votes: 0
Stephen KingThe first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants. Votes: 0
Roy Blount, Jr.I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyTo arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesThe closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library. Votes: 0
Ashleigh BrilliantWith a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer. Votes: 0
Daniel HandlerI cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy Votes: 0
Jane AustenI know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library. Votes: 0
Mark Jason DominusDon't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. Votes: 0
Dwight D. EisenhowerOne of the great advantages ofhaving a library,your eminence,is that it is full of books. Votes: 0
Michael HirstIn the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession. Votes: 0
John BrightA couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library. Votes: 0
Frank WestheimerOne man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments. Votes: 0
Vance HavnerIt's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. Votes: 0
Robert DarntonBelieve me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all. Votes: 0
Gene SimmonsThe Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. Votes: 0
John Allen PaulosCLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. Votes: 0
Audrey NiffeneggerEvery library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell HolmesNo place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonThen I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them. Votes: 0
John GoodmanSi hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deeritHe who has a garden and a library wants for nothing Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroDulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there... Votes: 0
Barbara PymQuestioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder. Votes: 0
RajneeshI won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin. Votes: 0
J. Patrick LewisIf I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library, Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesYeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness. Votes: 0
Lionel JohnsonIf peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books. Votes: 0
Mark PryorThe library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world. Votes: 0
Luis ValdezOne of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library. Votes: 0
Deb CalettiI got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time. Votes: 0
Bitsie Tulloch...better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table. Votes: 0
Nathanael WestI admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it! Votes: 0
Jim RohnA man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. Votes: 0
Rex StoutI want to know how the hell you managed to locate that hideout using the damn public library. Votes: 0
Richard CastleI have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books. Votes: 0
Audrey NiffeneggerI have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauA good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Votes: 0
Shmuel NigerThere are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall. Votes: 0
Al YankovicA great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need. Votes: 0
Vicki MyronI have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders. Votes: 0
Mark FoleyYou'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it. Votes: 0
Ruqaiyyah Waris MaqsoodYou'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it. Votes: 0
Rush LimbaughWhen I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library. Votes: 0
Jane Austen... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker. Votes: 0
Carolyn WellsIf you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world? Votes: 0
Joan BauerAt the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that. Votes: 0
Milla JovovichJack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me. Votes: 0
Bob HopeI do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. Votes: 0
Mark RuffaloHere's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer. Votes: 0
J. LynnThe library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. Votes: 0
Ray BradburyThe library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential. Votes: 0
Zadie SmithIf you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library. Votes: 0
Bill CosbyHe had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going. Votes: 0
J. K. RowlingI feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library. Votes: 0
Jacob BannonA library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanThe biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day. Votes: 0
Tony RobbinsI spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own. Votes: 0
Gregory ColbertThe library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. Votes: 0
Pete HamillIf a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. Votes: 0
Roger RosenblattI was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. Votes: 0
Beverly ClearyThe problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired. Votes: 0
Milton BerleI wouldnât be the person I am today if it wasnât for the opportunities the library gave me. Votes: 0
Alan MooreI feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. Votes: 0
Gregory Corso..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you. Votes: 0
Elie WieselI've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life. Votes: 0
Henry Ward BeecherMy father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library. Votes: 0
Suzan-Lori ParksI know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettThe library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community. Votes: 3 Aaron Swartz
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really. Votes: 1 David Attenborough
I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college library helped me to develop a broader aspect on life. Votes: 3 Linus Pauling
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library. Votes: 4 Tom Peters
OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything. Votes: 3 Gary D. Schmidt
I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - all four acts of it. Votes: 1 Peter Shaffer
In library science school, back in the years of glowing green non-graphical screens and protocols called Archie and Veronica, I wrote Internet documentation. Votes: 1 Elizabeth McCracken
There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books. Votes: 2 Elizabeth McCracken
Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children. Votes: 1 Nick Cave
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries. Votes: 2 Adriana Trigiani
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. Votes: 2 Thomas Jefferson
Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards. Votes: 4 Firoozeh Dumas
Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation. Votes: 3 Stephen D. Krashen
I'm grateful that I've enjoyed the support of libraries, bookshops and institutional funders. Votes: 1 Sara Sheridan
I've seen the most remarkable thing. It's in the New York Public Library. They've got the original typescript of 'The Importance of Being Earnest' - all four acts of it. Votes: 1 Peter Shaffer
Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library. Votes: 2 Laura Bush
When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible. Votes: 3 Alexander Kluge
The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources. Votes: 2 Juan Felipe Herrera
Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way. Votes: 1 Ted Sarandos
I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time. Votes: 4 Thomas Friedman
In library science school, back in the years of glowing green non-graphical screens and protocols called Archie and Veronica, I wrote Internet documentation. Votes: 3 Elizabeth McCracken
I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed. There are those who consider them a soft target when it comes to local authority budget cuts. In certain political quarters, there is a refusal to see that our public library service needs active protection. Votes: 3 Malorie Blackman
I moved to New York City in '92 and had no money. I had a lot of free time, as actors do. I would go to the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center. Votes: 1 Denis O'Hare
Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library. Votes: 1 Brewster Kahle
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. Votes: 4 Andrew Carnegie
I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books. Votes: 2 Mark Billingham
Children have to have access to books, and a lot of children can't go to a store and buy a book. We need not only our public libraries to be funded properly and staffed properly, but our school libraries. Many children can't get to a public library, and the only library they have is a school library. Votes: 8 Katherine Paterson
Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. Votes: 2 Nicholas Meyer
A drop in younger children visiting libraries is of great concern. As children's laureate, I am passionate about the role of libraries, both in schools and in the wider community. They are unique places where children can begin their journey as readers, as well as being creative hubs. Votes: 1 Chris Riddell