OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.
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 to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.
My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A. M. and pick us up at 4 P. M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.
Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
I'd best head to the library. Research beckons.
A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it.
The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor.
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.
I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.
This is unbearable. . . God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.
This is a great idea,” said Trey. “You kids should totaly go see that play. Make a whole day of it. Grab some dinner and hang out at the library or whatever it is you do for fun.
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries