Public Library Quotes - Page 5

• In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

  Henry Rollins

  Library, Would Be, World

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• I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

  Edward Bellamy

  Book, People, Liberty

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.101, Applewood Books

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• When something is discovered by people in movie theaters, it's discovered by people who are all together, and there's a sort of feeling of an event about it. And when it's on video, it's like something is being discovered in the library or something. It's like having a second life in public libraries. It's just like individuals, and it's less of a... We can't participate in it the same way.

  Wes Anderson

  People, Feelings, Library

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Library, Littles

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “The High Window: A Novel”, p.302, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The best place to find things: the public library.

  Edward Bernays

  Library, Best Place

  "The Father of Spin". Book by Larry Tye, p. 102, 1998.

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• The public library is the most dangerous place in town

  John Ciardi

  Library, Towns, Dangerous

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• ...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in me a denial of their values.' He rolled over onto his back. 'They fear me. I suspect that they can see that I am forced to function in a century I loathe. This was true even when I worked for the New Orleans Public Library.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Work, Mean, Boys

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.76, LSU Press

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• 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, Years, Paris

  Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

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• the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

  Eva Le Gallienne

  Museums, People, Library

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• A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough...People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances. Sometimes we have to steer a little more forcefully - you can't fry French fries in the New York Public Library.

  David Castle

  New York, Couple, Trying

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• I'm in the film industry, and I very seldom go to the theater now. It could be work, not being in New York, that sort thing - because in New York, you do go to theaters; you can walk to a theater and then walk to a restaurant. But in places you have to drive out to the cineplex to see a movie, it's starting not to be worth it anymore. It's like the days when you went to get a book at the public library. You don't have to do that anymore. You just go on your iPad and all of a sudden you're reading The Duchess of Malfi.

  William Monahan

  Book, Reading, Library

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Bette Midler

  Book, Kids, Makeup

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• I worked the AV counter at the Roland Heights public library in the '80s. My best story from the library was the time a couple asked for a recommendation, and I recommended Raising Arizona and they absolutely hated it. They came back hungry for blood. I was on my lunch break and my boss came out and said, "Hey kid, you need to come talk to these people. They totally hate Arizona." And he said, "Arizona's a dog; nobody gets that movie."

  John Darnielle

  Dog, Couple, Hate

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• It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.

  Tom Peters

  Strong, Library, Tuition

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my father being a veteran of World War II, not being able to use - having to sit behind Nazi on American military bases, I lost my fear of jails and death.

  Jesse Jackson

  Military, War, Father

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

  Charles Kuralt

  Book, Library, Literature

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• I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. All the wealth in the world and not a single intelligent idea as to how to employ it.

  Andre Naffis-Sahely

  Intelligent, Ideas, Oil

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I spent three years researching American Rose, research that included connecting with Gypsy's sister, the late actress June Havoc (I was the last person to interview her) and Gypsy's son, and also spending countless hours immersed in Gypsy's expansive archives at the New York Public Library. I became obsessed with figuring out the person behind the persona.

  Karen Abbott

  New York, Son, June

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.

  David McCullough

  Country, Mcdonalds, Library

  FaceBook post by David McCullough from Aug 24, 2012

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• When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

  Jesse Ventura

  Games, Library, Pay

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• I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Library, Four

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• The public library is the great equaliser.

  Keith Richards

  Library

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• Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

  Georges Bernanos

  Library, Tiny, Firsts

  Georges Bernanos (1974). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, Doubleday Books

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• At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach good citizenship. Libraries recognized that such "Americanization" could be achieved through literacy. Thus, teaching immigrants to read was not just a benefit in and of itself; literacy would also serve the interests of democracy.

  Kevin Mattson

  Teaching, Goal, Democracy

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