#library

"My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. 'Tis my mind that is starving."

"The public library is where place and possibility meet."

"If your library is not "unsafe,"it probably isn't doing its job."

"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."

"In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long."

"A leader should always be open to criticism, not silencing dissent. Any leader who does not tolerate criticism from the public is afraid of their dirty hands to be revealed under heavy light. And such a leader is dangerous, because they only feel secure in the darkness. Only a leader who is free from corruption welcomes scrutiny; for scrutiny allows a good leader to be an even greater leader."

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."

"Networking isn’t synonymous with partying. If you’re doing it right, partying seems libraryesque in comparison."

"My library is an archive of longings."

"I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book."

"My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships."

"The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)"

"A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."À qui la faute? (1872)"

"When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser."

"An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy."

"Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."

"I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books."

"Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace."

"When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf."

"Your mind is your library of what you read."