476 Quotes About Libraries

Una biblioteca raffinata è come un intestino. Bisogna stare molto attenti a cosa ci si mette dentro. Si prende in considerazione soltanto ciò che è opportuno. Se in una biblioteca di questo genere dovesse capitare un libro che c'entra, sarebbe come se aveste distrattamente inghiottito qualcosa di non commestibile. Sareste presi dalla nausea e dal disgusto.

People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries....But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves, lost and forgotten, waiting, waiting, until someone like me comes along, and wants to borrow them.

But I didn't mind. I loved that everything was cataloged and ready to go and that I was technically now living and sleeping in a library.

Δε χρειάζεται να κάψεις τα βιβλία για να καταστρέψεις έναν πολιτισμό. Αρκεί να κάνεις τους ανθρώπους να σταματήσουν να τα διαβάζουν

The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. – Linton Weeks, Washington Post, 13 January 2001

The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

Be careful. As if something’s going to jump us in a library.”“You might be surprised.”“What do you mean?”“You know how people say a book is really gripping?”“Don’t tell me…” Cat trailed off.“Libraries can be dangerous.

Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.