library quotes

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all 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.

I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.