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When she left the library, pearly threads linked roof to roof, dormer to dormer, a luminescent web under which everyone was equally chosen. — Anouk Markovits

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. — Walter Wager

Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down. — Mark Plotkin

A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library — Maya Angelou

I spent my life in the library reading books. — Michael Caine

It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself. — Michael Patrick Hearn

With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future. — Victor Koo

Whenever an elder dies, a library burns down. — Amadou Hampate Ba

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them. — Christopher Morley

You can tell a lot about an area from its library, and I'd never discount the usefulness of town archives. — Hester Young

For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind. — Geraldine Brooks

I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means. — Haruki Murakami

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library. — Walter Savage Landor

Sure." Olivia smirked. "Good ol' New York Public Library. I'm sure it's up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates. — Cheyenne McCray

My library isn't very extensive but every book in it is a friend. — L.M. Montgomery

When a story teller dies, a library burns. — Evan Turk

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.
Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.
But th' shelf is th' main thing. — Finley Peter Dunne

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession. — John Bright

One of the great advantages of
having a library,your eminence,
is that it is full of books. — Michael Hirst

She loved the library and was anxious to worship the lady in charge. But the librarian had other things on her mind. She hated children anyhow. — Betty Smith

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library. — Charles Spurgeon

Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library. — Jerzy Kosinski

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach. — Robertson Davies

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace. — Helene Hanff

Academic library collections are designed to support critical thinking, skepticism about the known, and curiosity about the unknown. — Wayne Bivens-Tatum

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library. — Ray Bradbury

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! — Charles Ogden

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books. — Andrew Wylie

The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes. — Dana Stabenow

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. — William Osler

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings. — Alexandra Adornetto

Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home. — Janet Fitch

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully. — Haruki Murakami

I was looking forward to my visit to the library. I've always been a big reader and thought I might eventually volunteer as a Friend of the Library. — Debbie Macomber

(this is before we're living together, before we do the most faithful act of all, mix our separate books into one library) — Ali Smith

Books, bringing people together.' That would make a good slogan for the library. — Kasie West

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you. — Kami Garcia

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. — Mark Ruffalo

A single man of good intelligence must be in want of a library card. — Trudy Wallis

A library is a focal point, a sacred place to a community; and its sacredness is its accessibility, its publicness. It's everybody's place". — Ursula K. Le Guin

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. — David Strathairn

Choose an author as you would a friend. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. — Karin Slaughter

There's no place like a library! — A.J. DeJong

Google's library plan was staggering and exciting - it wasn't the idea I objected to, but the method. — Nick Harkaway

The library, I presume," he said quietly. "I've a fondness for libraries. — Lorraine Heath

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. — Ronald Reagan

We are bees then; our honey is language. — Robert Bly

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries. — Arthur Ashe

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries! — Stephen Fry

Any man who would walk five miles through the snow, barefoot, just to return a library book so he could save three cents - that's my kind of guy. — Jack Benny

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

In the room ... they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go. — Jim Lee

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books. — Joanna Trollope

The Web is cool, but the library is magic. — Arthur Plotnik

To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this? — Steve Jobs

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. — Rodney Dangerfield

There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H. — Cassandra Clare

The function of a great library is to store obscure books. — Nicholson Baker

Every old man that dies is a library that burns. — Amadou Hampate Ba

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. — Audrey Niffenegger

All I did was go to the library to borrow some books — Haruki Murakami

I think it's incredible what you can find with just a quick trip down to your local library — Denise Hemphill

You can tell a lot by the size of a mans library — Chloe Neill

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. — Alberto Manguel

She was part wide-eyed wood nymph, part awkward society miss, and - he was beginning to realize - part testy library elf. — Karen Hawkins

The better the school library, the higher the reading scores. — Stephen D. Krashen

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. — Phyllis Schlafly

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn. — Leo Tolstoy

Book lovers will understand me,
and they will know too that part of the pleasure
of a library lies in its very existence. — Jan Morris

Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container. — Anonymous

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge. — Trenton Lee Stewart

Fletcher Free Library. (Supposedly, — Chris Bohjalian

the main Erudite building would be a library. — Veronica Roth

Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. — Luther Standing Bear

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next. — John Cotton Dana

I think the closest thing to a time machine that I've ever found is the Children's section of a library. — AnnaMarie Ralph

Consider reading an inspirational book or listen to a podcast every day. You will maintain a library of positive thoughts in your head. — Timi Nadela

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. — Barbara Kingsolver

Your library is your paradise. — Erasmus

I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk louder, then!" — Mitch Hedberg

Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer. — J. Lynn

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them. — Gilles Menage

Every soul is a story shelved away in an infinite library in the sky. — Karen Amanda Hooper

The best way to know someone was to look at their library. — Eva Leigh

To my sister's eyes, there is nothing which cannot be explained if one has access to a proper reference library. — Elizabeth Gilbert

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals. — Samuel Davies

My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader! — Tess Gerritsen

Library terror - that feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of available books ... — Owen Barfield

I want to know how the hell you managed to locate that hideout using the damn public library. — Richard Castle

A life without books is empty. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough. — William Shakespeare

A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard! — Esme Raji Codell

Your answers lie here, Rovender said, gesturing around the library. — Tony DiTerlizzi

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. — Anatole France