Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alex Haley

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

Alex Haley

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Drew Barrymore

I have no internet savvy whatsoever, but I love researching things. The Internet is my library... beyond that, I'm completely intimidated by it.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Anita Brookner

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.

Annie Dillard

It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.

Anita Roddick

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

Andrew Wiles

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

Robert Bly

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

Rita Dove

Libraries are where it all begins.

Tony Benn

I am a public library

Simone de Beauvoir

Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift.

Roy Blount, Jr.

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

Roy Blount, Jr.

The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants.

Susan Orlean

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

Studs Terkel

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Storm Jameson

invaders always destroy libraries.

Stewart Brand

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Victor Hugo

A library implies an act of faith.

Stephen King

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.

Tamora Pierce

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

Scott Turow

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

Stuart Pearce

Are you in a library or what?! (on the crowd being quiet)

Ray Bradbury

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

Ray Bradbury

... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

Ray Bradbury

A library is all the university you will ever need.

Ray Bradbury

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

Ray Bradbury

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

Ray Bradbury

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

Seth Grahame-Smith

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

Seth Grahame-Smith

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

Rajneesh

Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder.

Neil Gaiman

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.