If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
Cornelia Funke

If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.
Lawrence Lessig

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin

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

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
Frank Zappa

If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign.
Graham Nelson

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

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
Carolyn Wells

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.
Marian Burros

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.
Michael Chabon

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

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
Jorge Luis Borges

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

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
Peter Lewis Allen

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X

My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.
Katherine Moennig

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
Joseph Howe

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
Bram Cohen

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Anatole France