(383 quotes found)
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
“Some men have only one book in them, others a library”
Proverb
“Why by a book when you can join a library.”
Ricky Gervais
“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.”
Lily Tomlin
“If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.”
Tony Benn
“My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve”
Joseph Howe
“Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.”
William S. Burroughs
“What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.”
Archibald MacLeish
“Libraries are not made, they grow”
Augustine Birrell
“Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.”
William Shakespeare
