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Friday, July 20, 2012

12 Best Quotes for Libraries

  1. My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn’t have any excuse to be stupid. ~Joan Bauer
  2. It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home. ~Elizabeth Kostova
  3. [His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore. ~Ray Bradbury
  4. An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them. ~Stephen Fry
  5. Madam, a circulating library in a town is an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. ~Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  6. The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. ~Isabel Allende
  7. Libraries are our friends. ~Neil Gaiman
  8. 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
  9. I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ~Jorge Luis Borges
  10. She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people. ~Catherynne M. Valente
  11. What better place to kill time than a library? ~Diane Setterfield
  12. Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark…. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ~Germaine Greer

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