All Quotes

Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.
‐‐ Michael Moore

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
‐‐ Laura Bush

Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?
‐‐ Sam Weller

Libraries are not made, they grow.
‐‐ Augustine Birrell

Libraries are public treasuries. They're ways in which well-meaning societies leave the wealth of the past arranged A to Z so that anyone walking past can find it.
‐‐ Francis Spufford

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.
‐‐ Germaine Greer

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.
‐‐ Simon Van Booy

Libraries are where it all begins.
‐‐ Rita Dove

Libraries are where we learn that we can live our lives through books.
‐‐ Kevin Barry

Libraries can take the place of God.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.
‐‐ Scott Turow

Libraries have a PR problem - or at least that's what they call it when no one under the age of 40 walks through the door. To bring in a younger crowd, the paper pushers have turned to tech to bring in the public. DVDs, CDs and, yes, even videogames are hitting the shelves of your local library.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.
‐‐ Brewster Kahle

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.
‐‐ Vartan Gregorian

Libraries raised me.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
‐‐ Kate Mosse

'Library of Souls' is longer than 'Hollow City' by a considerable margin, but this time I was on the right track from the beginning, so I never had to start over. It took about 15 months, all told.
‐‐ Ransom Riggs

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.
‐‐ Muammar al-Gaddafi

Libya is a failed state and becoming a launching pad for external operations, as is Sinai in Egypt.
‐‐ Mike McCaul

Libya is a good example of a country that has come to a realization that weapons of mass destruction threaten more than assure, and I hope that will be followed by others.
‐‐ Mohamed ElBaradei

Libya is divided into tribes and clans.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Libyans have to work together for a new Libya. They should keep in place the sinews of security.
‐‐ Andrew Mitchell

Licences to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.
‐‐ Maurice Strong

'License to Kill' is not one of the great Bond movies.
‐‐ Benicio Del Toro

Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.
‐‐ Giada De Laurentiis

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.
‐‐ Keith Henson

Lie detectors sometimes work because people believe they work, deterring the wrong people from applying for jobs in the first place, or prompting admissions of guilt during interrogations.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
‐‐ Marya Mannes

Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself.
‐‐ Tove Jansson

Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.
‐‐ Monica Raymund

Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.
‐‐ Tony Campolo

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway.
‐‐ Robin Marantz Henig

Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

Lies suck; they tear you apart from the inside out.
‐‐ Tyler Hamilton

Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
‐‐ Gary Allan

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
‐‐ Charlie Sheen

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
‐‐ Frank Lloyd Wright

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
‐‐ Shirley Jackson

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.
‐‐ Charles Krauthammer