825 Quotes About Library

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.

I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less-filling volumes and libraries with the subtle linguistic analysis of the grunt.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]

Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?