Library Quotes - Page 23

• You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.

  Ben Affleck

  Hard Work, Fifty, Bucks

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• The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. And rightly so. The scientist addresses an infinitesimal audience of fellow composers. His message is not devoid of universality but its universality is disembodied and anonymous. While the artist's communication is linked forever with its original form, that of the scientist is modified, amplified, fused with the ideas and results of others and melts into the stream of knowledge and ideas which forms our culture. The scientist has in common with the artist only this: that he can find no better retreat from the world than his work and also no stronger link with the world than his work.

  Max Delbruck

  Book, Communication, Hard Work

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1969.

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• It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humorous, Strange

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• For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

  Herman Melville

  Fear, Book, Men

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.328, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

  Agnes de Mille

  Inspirational, College, Thinking

  Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.79, New York Review of Books

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• I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16 years old, we went down to the public library trying to check out some books and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors! It was a public library! I never went back to that public library until July 5th, 1998, by this time I'm in the Congress, for a book signing of my book "Walking with the Wind"

  John Lewis

  Cousin, Brother, Kings

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• A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Education, Learning, Knowledge

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• There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Children, Book, Reading

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• What is reading but silent conversation?

  Walter Savage Landor

  Book, Reading, Quiet

  Walter Savage Landor (1826). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.497

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• The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

  James McCosh

  Motivational, Book, Reading

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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Burning

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Real, Book, Reading

  1941 Language in Action.

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• My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

  Harry Golden

  Beach, Book, Reading

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• A library should be like a pair of open arms.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Reading, Pairs, Arms

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• More people should use their library.

  Regis Philbin

  Reading, People, Use

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• What can I say? Librarians rule.

  Regis Philbin

  Reading, Literacy, Librarian

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• I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Philosophical, Reading, Fearless

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• When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

  Ray Bradbury

  Reading, Writing, School

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• A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.

  Daniel Dennett

  Knowledge, Way, Scholar

  Daniel C. Dennett (2017). “Consciousness Explained”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• (Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I had read them, I would have broken my head, and I would have wasted precious time that I could have employed very simply in loving God.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Sorry, Book

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• The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Kids, Special

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• A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.

  Julie Andrews

  Powerful, Reading, Kids

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• Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Book, Reading

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• At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities as parents, as librarians, as educators, as politicians, and as citizens to instill in our children a love of reading so that we can give them a chance to fulfill their dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Children, Reading

  "We Compared Obama’s Words To Trump’s And The Result Will Make You Sad" by Nick Wing, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2016.

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