Library Of Quotes

He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open a door at the far end and plunged through.... and in the Library of All the Same Book he actually stopped to examine a few of the volumes, all titled Various, that lined the shelves.
- Chris Adrian

I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.
- Leo Kottke

Words: repositories for singular realities which they then transform into memories in an anthology, magicians that change the face of reality by adorning it with the right to become memorable, to be placed in a library of memories.
- Muriel Barbery

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
- Lemony Snicket

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
- Bruno Bettelheim

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
- Augustine Birrell

All that can be done is for each of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics; and I would say that one half of it would consist of books we have read and that have meant something for us and the other half of books which we intend to read and which we suppose might mean something to us. We should also leave a section of empty spaces for surprises and chance discoveries.
- Italo Calvino

The book was not new. Dates were stamped on the front endpaper, in and out dates. A rent book. A lending library of elaborate smut.
I rewrapped the book and locked it up behind the seat. A racket like that, out in the open on the boulevard, seemed to mean plenty of protection. I sat there and poisoned myself with cigarette smoke and listened to the rain and thought about it.
- Raymond Chandler

The Library of Alexandria?" I ask. "Didn't that burn down?"
Mrs Philipoulus scoffs. "Damn fool Hypatia. Athena tried to convince her to install a sprinkler system. But no-o-o, no one was going to tell the librarianatrix how to run her library.
- Tera Lynn Childs

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
- Tom Clancy

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
- John Dingell

We don't have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.
- Scott Douglas

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry.
- Rita Dove

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.
- Henry James

Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of.
- Gennifer Flowers

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.
- Tom Glazer

Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress
- Mira Grant

THOMASINA:
But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
- Tom Stoppard

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.
- Al Jarreau

I'm up for the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award this year. I'm tremendously proud, considering Caesar is the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria.
- Jarod Kintz

The house I grew up in is one of a kind. It's a bibliophile's fantasy, and if the Library of Congress had a little brother who was a midget, you could find him residing in my parents' house.
- Jarod Kintz

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.
- Alexander Kluge

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.
- Alberto Manguel

Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.
- Garth Nix

You're a library of me.
- Zadie Smith

A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses.
- Rex Stout

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
- Swami Vivekananda