825 Quotes About Library

An old librarian once said to me, " whatever we deal with, coming here is always a visual reward.

It was a well-aimed arrow. Had anyone even noticed she was no longer at the library? All the people she'd worked with, worked for? All the patrons she'd helped? Had she been so replaceable that her absence hadn't caused a single ripple?Hadn't she mattered at all?

Every library is a palace; every book is a king; every reading is a magic!

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

A library is thought in cold storage.

He pointed the scepter around the library and had an instant input of all of the books that were there into his brain, as if he had read them all at once.

In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.

You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.

The visitor enters and says, "What a lot of books! Have you read them all?" ...The best answer is the one always used by Roberto Leydi: "And more, dear sir, many more," which freezes the adversary and plunges him into a state of awed admiration. But I find it merciless and angst-generating. Now I have fallen back on the riposte: "No, these are the ones I have to read by the end of the month. I keep the others in my office.