Library Lost Quotes

#1. The single static note amidst the swirl of activity was Grandmother deShiel, who sat small and hunched on the cast-iron garden seat outside the library, lost in her cobwebbed memories and completely oblivious to the round glass lanterns being strung up in the trees around her -

Kate Morton

#2. No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including all the lost books and the ones that the authors burned when they came back from the last publisher.

Evelyn Waugh

#3. My mother was lost to me, but I wasn't lost. She had anchored me, to Amma, my father, Link, Gatlin, before she left. I felt her in the streets, my house, the library, even the pantry.

Kami Garcia

#4. Maxon smiled effortlessly. "America Singer," he announced, "my closest friend." "That's right." I rolled my eyes.

Kiera Cass

#5. The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

Jack Kemp

#7. Some say they get lost in books, but I find myself, again and again, in the pages of a good book. Humanly speaking, there is no greater teacher, no greater therapist, no greater healer of the soul, than a well-stocked library.

L.R. Knost

#8. Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.

Jill Lepore

#9. For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.

Lavie Tidhar

#10. I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

Mike Tyson

#11. Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

Lindsey Graham

#12. The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian ... He's bound to lose perspective.

Robert Musil

#13. I was really into '24' at university, and it resulted in a lot of lost hours that could have been spent at the library. If you could have told me then I would be in it one day, I'd have hit the roof.

Emily Berrington

#14. I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library - subway maps, bus maps, and regular maps - and try to memorize them. I'm afraid of getting lost; no, I'm afraid of sinking into the city as in a quicksand, afraid of getting sucked into something I can never escape.

Deborah Feldman

#15. I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass., where nothing seemed to change.

Stacy Schiff

#16. Many people weigh the guilt, they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Peter McWilliams

#17. There are the people who overthink making mix CDs and playlists, and how that works generationally is all really interesting to me.

Noah Baumbach

#18. You know, when you're real and speak your truth (in respectful ways), people won't always like you. But you'll like you.

Robin Sharma

#19. Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.

Robert Harris

#20. I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.

Kami Garcia

#21. Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

Stuart Dybek

#22. We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

#23. New York City revived around the team. I don't think you can look at the recovery of New York from the 1970s without, on some level, talking about Steinbrenner. Even if you're just talking about the feel of the city, he was part of a creation of a new sense of optimism.

Jonathan Mahler

#24. I gambled for the soul of the Library. And I lost.

Rachel Caine

#25. Each evening she held his head in her hands and ran her aching fingers thru the thick ruff of fur around his neck. He burrowed against her, sighing devotion.

Meg Rosoff

#26. Nikki Heat, you did this?"
"Would it help if I said he had it coming?

Richard Castle

#27. Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

Anthony Horowitz

#28. If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time.

Matthew Donnelly

#29. One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library.

Sarah Noffke

#30. Resa longed for the kitchen, always full of the humming of the oversize fridge, for mo's workshop in the garden, and the armchair in the library where you could sit and visit strange worlds without getting lost in them

Cornelia Funke

#31. Learn - improve - grow - live. Learn as if you might live forever and you'll live as if you might die tomorrow.

Steve Goodier

#32. In my late teens, early 20s, when I started stand-up and I was living downtown for the first time, I was deep into my blues and Bukowski phase. And, you know, that's when that's appropriate. And I grew out of it.

Paul F. Tompkins

#33. I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

Rainbow Rowell

#34. It made the Baudelaire sisters a little sad to see all those books sitting in the library unread and unnoticed, like stray dogs or lost children that nobody wanted to take home.

Lemony Snicket

#35. I loved football even before I married a quarterback; it's not for every woman, but I like it.

Holly Robinson Peete

#36. As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.

James Wolcott

#37. Records can be destroyed if they do not suit the prejudices of ruling cliques, lost if they become incomprehensible, distorted if a copyist wishes to impose a new meaning upon them, misunderstood if we lack the information to interpret them. The past is like a huge library, mostly fiction.

Henry Ford

#38. I was in the library reading - getting lost in another world that's not my reality.

Jay McLean

#39. (on not being able to keep still): I have to move. I always want to engage the audience, and hopefully they are going to send some energy back

Blake Lewis

#40. To what derision should I be exposed from a thousand quarters!- An unlearned female entering the lists of criticism against the mighty Johnson!

Anna Seward

#41. I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.

Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey