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I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.
Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection.
I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.
With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.
First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.
The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.
I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.
I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man
I read all the time. I love it. My fantasy would be to be locked into a library. I'd be very, very happy.
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.
Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?
Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.
Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.
Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge!
Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.
To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.
One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.
Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.
As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.
Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.
Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.
I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.
Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.
Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.
Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries.
Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.