All Quotes By Tag: Library

“We awaken by asking the right questions.”

“Libraries hold more than books – they also contain salvation.”

“To fully encapsulate my creativity, I read to inhale, write to exhale. The whole process helps me breathe story.”

“Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses”

“Dr. Beall gave him the first shot, followed closely by the second.He said, “I’ll check for a heartbeat.”I said, “You don’t need to. I can see it in his eyes.”Dewey was gone.”

“I won’t be sad too often,If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.”

“The more you read, the less you sound foolish when you speak.”

“If you spare some space for a new book, also spare some time to read it.”

“He saw my confusion and led me a slow, stately march to the library. There were shelves all the way around the room, and every shelf was crowed with books. I had not thought so many books existed.[…] There was a desk, several big leather chairs, a wooden floor covered with faded rugs, and in front of the fireplace a sofa with soft pillows. The shelves stopped several feet short of the ceiling, leaving room for a row of busts of what I imagined must be famous gentlemen. Lamps cast little pools light in the room, and the sound and smell of the fire reminded me of the fires the Kikuyu would make outside theirs huts when they roasted goats.”

“People used to build great libraries to symbolize man’s quest for knowledge, now we have the Internet which is both more powerful and wonderful. The men who used to get their information from the library were considered scholars but the men who get their information from the Internet are considered idiots, or worse, thieves.”

“We are more in control of how much we know than we are of how much we have.”

“I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I’ll still be with my books.”

“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man”