library

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends__lways ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

Even the most misfitting childWho's chanced upon the library's worth,Sits with the genius of the EarthAnd turns the key to the whole world.--"Hear It Again

The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

A library is a hospital for the mind.

The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers?

Rich people have small TVs, small cars, but big libraries.

Her latest client is Professor Desmond Curnin, a university professor who teaches library sciences to large groups of students. He__ quick to pay on-time, quick to never fall behind. He__ a brown-haired man with an unkempt beard and thick-framed hipster glasses. He slides a leather briefcase stuffed with dollar bills into the open window of Geraldine__ car. __our fly__ unzipped,_ Geraldine points out, disgusted. __ho gave you a license to sell hot dogs, buddy?

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.

Every stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book.

Organizing the books was a fun afternoon. We decided to put the thick hardback books, mostly intro. to philosophy textbooks and Norton literature anthologies, on the top shelves where they looked good but stayed out of reach since there's no reason for opening them ever again. Then we went by genre: mysteries, cozies, modernists, mountains, sci-fi, beloved childhood volumes, books we bought abroad, books required in school we couldn't sell back, books bought for us we'll read soon, books bought for us we have no intention of reading, books we want to read but are too long for a commitment with our current schedules...We're not really done with this organization, and I doubt we ever will be, but that's one great part about it.

I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

If the Beast gave me a library like he gave to Belle, I__ marry him too.

The world is quiet here.

It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last day of the week, when the rest of the world is having its relaxing Saturday off and coming to gloat over you as it acquires its Sunday-reading best seller, if you work in a library you begin just at noon to wish devoutly that you'd taken up scrubbing-by-the-day, or hack-driving, or porch-climbing or- anything on earth that gave you a weekly half-holiday!

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

Life consists of books. All experiences are stories to be told and must be written.