Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Gaiman

Libraries really are the gates to the future.

John Waters

Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head.

Matthew Lesko

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

Maya Angelou

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else.

Paula Fox

Freedom is a public library.

Laurie R. King

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

Nick Bostrom

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

Philip Roth

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

Peter Drucker

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

Milla Jovovich

At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.

She's insurance. She'll go in a living library of trees.

James A. Michener

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.

Francis Bacon

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

George Carlin

Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.

Cassandra Clare

It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room." Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in the library or the weapons room or any of the other places he's usually ridiculous?

Jeanette Winterson

I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

Jerzy Kosinski

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.

Georges Bernanos

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

Italo Calvino

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

I think reconstructing his library would be fantastic. That would be a real contribution to scholarship.

Jessamyn West

With enough libraries, all content is free.

Jim C. Hines

...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

Jim Butcher

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

J. B. Morton

A library is a room where the murders take place.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Alexandra Adornetto

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

Alexander Smith

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Dana Stabenow

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes.

David Mamet

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.