825 Quotes About Library

You, my dear, should spend more time in a library. It's not just a hiding place, but also the place where the chases happen.

There was absolutely nothing sexier than a hot bookworm.

When all else fails, trust the library.

Most historians agree that the decline of the Great Library of Alexandria was due to what endangers libraries of the present day--general indifference and bureaucratic neglect.

I know of a private library containing several thousand volumes, which are organized neither alphabetically nor chronologically, but where the owner has instead determined the juxtaposition of hierarchy of all the books according to pure personal preference - and yet so organically has the whole place been arranged and so sovereign an overview does he have of his entire collection that he can effortlessly pick out any particular tome that someone has asked him to lend them.

The Chilson District Library Bookmobile began its maiden voyage. Me, three thousand books, one hundred DVDs, a dozen jigsaw puzzles, two laptop computers-and one Eddie.

Die Bibliothek ist das Tagebuch der menschlichen Rasse, das Beratungszimmer der Weisen.

The library might have been the first place I was ever given autonomy.

...if we as librarians do not give authority, respectability, and support to new ideas and new voices, who will? If we do not provide our patrons with access to revolutionary ideas and methods of communication, who will?