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My library Was dukedom large enough.

William Shakespeare

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

William Shakespeare

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

Henry Ward Beecher

For a library you need visibility and accessibility -- someplace that's easy to get into.

Kathryn Blehart

Even a huge library couldn't have provided these kinds of resources 25 years ago. It's something that we are particularly excited about to have those capabilities.

Willie Nelms

The most important thing is that the library serves the individual needs of all people. She is the future, Julia's generation and the next.

Karen Roesler

People buy books [and] Amazon is so easy. Go to the library instead.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Your library is your portrait.

Holbrook Jackson

Having a new building really piques the interest of people who have never been in the library and people who haven't been here in a few years.

Randy Matlow

We are looking at library completion and moving in by mid-fall of 2008.

Katayoon Shaya

I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possible. I'm an avid reader.

Carolyn Jones

Basically what we're trying to do is allow a consumer to build a digital library for the first time.

Jim Ramo

As far as I know there has never been a public library branch in May's Lick.

Robyn Jones

I feel like there's a better motivational atmosphere in Clemons than, say, Alderman or the [Fiske Kimball] library of fine arts.

Rohan Pai

[Tuesday's incident] was an awful thing, horrendous, ... We are really thankful the library staff was there and attentive and took the initiative to do something about this.

Darick Clark

Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so.

Georgia De Araujo

These books are the students' very own to keep. This is a great program … encouraging the children to read and build a home library.

Sheila Shynski

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Samuel Johnson

I said, 'I don't know. I'll go to the library and look it up.' If I would have known I'd end up at the Supreme Court, I probably would have said no.

Sarah Weddington

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

Gene Simmons

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

Claudia Lady Bird Johnson

Parents should check their children's backpacks for the flyer. The flyers are also available at the library.

Colleen Butler

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

So the building is transparent. The library is in the park and the park is in the library.

Kay Runge

The key is building a library of video, and we are. We have a lot cooking, a lot of proposals out, and we're looking for charter sponsors.

Prescott Shibles

It's interesting to see everyone jumping on the digital library bandwagon.

Doron Weber

We have a really excellent collection. I've been told that we have the best Spanish language collection of any library in the state. But that was a couple of years ago and some have probably caught up with us.

Carole Winkleblack

Dana Grimmett has taken our library to a higher limit! She is making it the very best.

Mark Hudson

The ability to create a library with more than a million different sensors is pretty remarkable.

Frank Bright

Our goal is to get resources back on the shelf, so it has helped us get more things back into the library.

Audrey Betcher

My concern is that we're placing him in this institutional conflict of interest, and that the library could end up losing in the end.

Mark Lieberman

We're celebrating it all week here at the library.

Dena Crews

Once they're in the library, then we promote the books we have, the resources we have and the people we have who can help them.

Judith Gregg

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

Thomas E. Lovejoy

The whole goal of the library is to be a community gathering place, and we don't want to have any patron feel like it's not an environment they would want to bring their family to.

Susan Nemitz

There will be displays with documentation and pictures promoting the library.

Deanda Line

We have roots here,Homer. We have friends and library cards … Bart's lawyer is here.

Marge Simpson

We have a huge library and that's a lot of what we lost. The good news is we don't owe anything on any of it.

Mark Thomson

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

Roger Rosenblatt

Our goals for 2006 are major a new fire station and the expansion of Freedom Library.

Pat Gabriel

I love our library and I think it is a great addition to the community. And it is kind of cool that they have animal traps.

Matt Evans

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

Archibald Macleish

It's a big job here. The director at our library does everything because we don't have departments.

Lynn Hobbs

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

Alan M. Dershowitz

There are resources there that are set up for everyone to use. If you don't have 50 cents to buy a newspaper, you can go to the library and read want ads.

James Waghorne

We're looking forward to folks from other libraries coming up to see our library, since it's only a couple of blocks away.

Robin Beerbower

A library is thought in cold storage.

Herbert Samuel

When people walk into a modern home, they don't ask about a library.

Gopal Ahluwalia

We had books in our library already on this art. That meant we could do research in our own collection.

Karen Mcguire

I feel good about taking things to Goodwill and actually, I do like shopping at Goodwill. It's so cheap that it feels like a library where I am just checking things out for awhile until I decide to take them back.

April Foiles

A man's library is a sort of harem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is going to make it so much easier for people to get in the library and use the resources.

Robert Maranto

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Alexander Smith

This is real library funding.

Martina Kominiarek

Every library is an arsenal.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Jim cared so much about the library. I think somehow it should be connected to the library.

Terry Rogers

The architect was good at little details to make the library not look like a warehouse.

Randy Matlow

The No. 1 goal is to get out of the way of the library so that they can start construction. As of June 12, the clock will be ticking.

Towny Anderson

We think [the library] is an irreplaceable asset where we can unlock a tremendous amount of value.

Alex Yemenidjian

A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the library.

Westheimer's Discovery

The Special Collections Library is the best we have. They have such fascinating things in there.

Sarah Hall

Michael is very good in construction. He has really worked hard to help us put the library together.

Leslie Robertson

We knew they were going to fly a commercial airliner into the tallest building in California. And it was an analytic judgement by the intelligence community that that meant the Library Tower.

Frances Townsend

Her efforts allow the library to better serve our patrons by quickly connecting them with information resources.

Sol M. Hirsch

Our client wants to tell the American public about the dangers of allowing the FBI to demand library records without court approval.

Ann Beeson

I saw a guy with a bloody face. He went into the library to wipe his face, then he came back out and confronted Rafael. That's when I went to get security.

Kevin Campos

The library is the heart of the school, it's the hub.

Ron Black

We were expecting this library for a long time. The reading center was too small for the kids.

Claudina Estrada

Removing books from the library is a no-no.

Diane Ravitch

The purpose of our event is for people to come and read. They can come into library and read by themselves or the children's librarian will read for a little bit.

Victoria Hart

A library is a repository of medicine for the mind.

Greek Proverb

The tables in the library are not metal, so I didn't have that problem.

Faye Nobles

They will see information about how to find an in-copyright work, either through a bookstore, a publisher or (the closest) library.

James Hilton

We hope to have a big crowd. It is a great way to have fun and support your local library.

Colleen Butler

Inter-library loan allows us to expand our collection without buying the book or materials.

Beth Hansen

The World Digital Library is an attempt to go beyond Europe and the Americas...into cultures where the majority of the world is.

James Billington

They will be doing polling so that we can get a scientifically valid representation of the feelings of the community about the library.

Richard Treleven

I really like this library. They have a lot of nice programs here and they're very helpful.

Ruth King

That's really the backbone of our library.

Kathryn Blehart

Some of these changes not only are things that are better for the library, but they're based on student comments. So we did this in a way to not only make it more accessible to students, but to give them a better place to study.

Chris Cox

We will be discussing it at the Community Development meeting, and hope to find the best way to convince the Mason County Library to set something up in May's Lick.

Robyn Jones

I join Dean Frances Coleman, the director of our campus library system, in thanking Mr. Barnes for this significant contribution. It will greatly enhance our collection.

Michael Ballard

Anne was instrumental in getting the Easton library its own building.

Bernadette Baldino

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

Tony Benn

We put in a library, a dining room a drawing room and a bedroom, and a nice center hall which sort of leads off to all these spaces.

Mario Buatta

Presents all the options; we show the library of tea.

Bob Richardson

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Mark Twain

It was very crowded in the village hall. It was used very much. That's how we got a new library building.

Carlton Whitney

That's going to take some doing. I think a strong, healthy library is critical to the community.

Adelle Bell

We can only be there from 8 to 10 (a.m.) because we have to be done when the library opens to the public.

Maureen Widner

The good thing is that library employees are going to get a 3 percent raise, the bad part is that some will get laid off.

Rosann Sanders

He has hit the major school library journal, which is pretty amazing.

Wayne Rush

We’re not asking you to censor anything, ... We’re not asking you to take the book out of the library.

Mark Walker

At the library, we have American Girl meetings every month. They're very popular.

Ann Coppola

Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandrea.

Lawrence Clark Powell

It is not dangerous. It is a piece of equipment that you would find at the library. It is still too early to say if there would be any charges brought against anybody.

Bob Fitzgerald

To have a vibrant library shows there is learning going on and student achievement is at a high level.

Lisa Horton

So far, we've given out 104 cards this year. We want every child to have a card and know that this is their library.

Judy Hillberg

It's a free country. People pay their admission, they can come to the library.

Skip Rutherford

If they come into the library, they're reading. It doesn't matter if they're reading comics or easy horror stories.

Maile Davis

Everything in this store benefits my kids. Those books go into the classroom. I had a little boy who wanted a book a day for a home library. He could not wait to pick up (another) book.

Barbara Bosser

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

Michelle Rodriguez

It's hard to tell if this should be filed in the Library of Congress under fiction or nonfiction.

Howard Gantman

I think reconstructing his library would be fantastic. That would be a real contribution to scholarship.

Gordon Wood

We will pay for family library cards for our citizens. What we need to do first is meet with library officials in both cities to make a decision as to the best way to pay it.

Frank Pankratz

Imagine 40 high school kids and adults crowded into the school library.

John Cooney

I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Groucho Marx

I'm in favor of enhancing the library in whatever way we can. Funding is the issue in most decisions.

Thomas Aud

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

Arthur Baer

Very few people use the Long Grove library.

Pam Collins

What she brings to our library is an atmosphere of kids wanting to be in the library, ... Some places kids don't even want to go to the library, but here, our kids want to go and it is because of Mrs. Grimmett.

Mark Hudson

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

Doris Lessing

We focus on their early lives together. We're the only place that focuses on both the Clintons instead of just President Clinton, which is what hope is focused on and the presidential library is focused on.

Joseph Barnes

It works out to about $267 per use for the bookmobile. But (the county library association) deals with all the maintenance.

Sandra Collins

I truly see this expansion as a way for the library to help build community.

Charlyn Canada

These boards are the ones who actually have the power to do something and make something happen. And it has to be acceptable to the state and the county library association.

Bruce Egli

A library our size should really have their own web site.

Beth Hansen

This is more of a library thing. We're the people's university. The senior center is the recreation.

Jay Johnston

Everyone likes to see the library staff pushing carts. It's always amusing.

Andrew Pendergrass

The Le Mars Public library is a regional resource.

Beth Hansen

Today we welcome the world to our library.

Mary Sue Coleman

The glass is not the kind to break easily. It's the same stuff that we have in the library. [The windows] make it look light and airy.

Cyndi Holm

The library has a lot resting on this election.

Janet Steiner

The Constitution does not guarantee the right to acquire information at a public library without any risk of embarrassment.

William H. Rehnquist

I noticed AIM [AOL Instant Messenger] had a robust script library.

Kevin Fox

We give away free books. People can't believe that they're free, but it represents us as being a free public library.

Dawn Lloyd

When I took the bar I spent 7 1/2 weeks studying in the library every day before that.

Michael Huttner

We do have wireless in the library. But no where else, not even close to the whole building.

Scott Case

People like a library with more services and more hours ....

Pam Collins

We will look at the current inventory and work to ensure a proper atmosphere at the library.

Yvonne Hester

There is no way the British Library would be able to afford some of the sums that have been mentioned so donation would be a preferred route.

Christopher Wright

To make a library it takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

Carolyn Wells

One of the amazing aspects of the library is just the sheer numbers of computers that are available to the public.

Kay Runge

We started to sense this anger over the fight. Then you?re not voting against the library, you?re voting against something else.

Sue Karlman

Beautiful sunken living room, library, cathedral ceilings.

Judy Cooper

It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

Tommy Cooper

The board of education has no business allowing the library board under our flag to run a bond issue. We go to the public enough. Probably more than enough.

Pete Thaw

We will have a motion on the agenda Tuesday asking the librarian to come up with a way to eliminate pornography (from library computers).

Tony Bell

It's fair to say that this library is as involved with community events as any. I've seen that as part of my mission here, and I've been receptive to community groups coming my way.

Andrew Pendergrass

You have to do this early. 'You want it so that when the child gets older, they want to go to the library.

Dahlia Hall

We're here to make the library easy to use.

Randy Matlow

The owners of this library are the taxpayers who put up the money to get it built. I am disappointed for the children -- that they don't have their library.

Diane Davis

The Tompkins County Charter says the county is responsible for providing funds for the library.

Joe Brennan

The numbers are up in terms of the total because of the library project.

Howard Davidson

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.

Frank Zappa

We didn't used to have kids here. It's a whole new clientele. They know they can get homework support at the library.

Ray Serebrin

We had plans for a 5,000-square-foot library, with inadequate parking.

Stanley Smith

It's not just the library, ... Every budget goes through the same thing.

Jerry Miller

We figure that the $5,000 we gave before to the Oil City Library will pay for 142 family library cards. So I think this arrangement will be all right, financially, for us.

Frank Pankratz

Where the crux of the issue lies is that (certain) departments are so heavily based on labor force. There is more to it at the library, there's a little more flexibility about other softer items where you are just able to cut.

Brent Trout

She brought the library system together to make sure that all libraries were supported.

Kathy Long

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

Marie de Sevigne

The biggest challenge was creating an architectural space with very little money. They did a beautiful job on it and now the library completes the whole block Downtown.

Bill Bishop

Back in the city's control - not the library board.

Paul Farris

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.

Anatole France

They've been operating city hall from the library since I was elected.

Paul Farris

Lots of people are driving by, or come to basketball games and see our new commons area...but they don't see around the building...like the library or our math portables.

Wes Maples

We've had a lot more teens hanging out at the new library, ... The kids really like the new computers and a lot of them come here to hang out with their friends and do their homework after school.

American Library

At one library that got that resource, 80 percent of the titles were checked out in 48 hours. Those should be successful. There's a great demand for audio books.

Martina Kominiarek

Virtual library that would be brought to you by different search systems.

Brewster Kahle

We're happy to take monies to build this library in whatever form.

Georgia De Araujo

Certainly the library and UHM have many unique items that should be captured and available to people around the world.

Sara Rutter

The Friends of the Geneva Library do a lot of special projects for us and purchase many extras that benefit the library.

Bill Stokes

This community is just demonstrating time and again how much they want their library services. They demonstrate it with their feet.

Marcia Lebeau

This can generate between $4 and $50 a month for the library. It varies.

Mary Fischer

Nobody buys them. They find them in the library.

Dr. Leonard Rosenman

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

Barbara W. Tuchman

This acquisition would be consistent with our desire to broaden and deepen our library of filmed entertainment, as well as to add an important musical component, and, as we discussed, to introduce (Image Entertainment) as a new studio label focusing on specialty theatrical content.

Jon Feltheimer

I hope people will come in to use the library and see [the wireless Internet] as an additional benefit.

Jenny Emanuel

I have been coming to this library and using this great Chinese collection for eight years.

Sharon Chang

This is the fourth location for the library, we've grown so much.

Richard Hoyer

We think it's just a stunning, stunning building. It doubles the size of our current library.

Anne Campbell

Proceeds go for books for the library, and also every student gets one book for their birthday.

Beth Schwier

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Isaac Asimov

People appreciate and help their home library, and we appreciate their help.

Patti Miller

Let?s just say you?re not going to see these books at the public library.

Emily Johnson

The library is open and will continue to be open into the foreseeable future. There are no plans to close the library at this point.

Elizabeth Burden

The library is the senior hang out.

Elizabeth Sullivan

All teachers are given before- and after-school library passes, which they may give to students.

Eileen Harden