“ I don't understand this irony - valuable things like cars, gold, diamond are made up of hard materials but most valuable things like money, contracts and books are made up of soft paper. Amit Kalantri
“ Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much. Amit Kalantri
“ People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go to my library read the relevant book and provide the solution. Amit Kalantri
“ It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since it had been laid to rest. The librarian fetched a checked duster, and wiped away the dust, a black,… A.S. Byatt
“ A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence. James Rozoff
“ I loved college... I knew exactly why I was there and what I wanted to get out of it. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finishe… Jeanette Walls
“ I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be t… Scott Douglas
“ The shelves were supposed to be loaded with books—but they were, of course, really doors: each book-lid opened as exciting as Alice putting her gold key in the lock. I spent days running in and out of… Caitlin Moran
“ Harriet said, You shouldn't have reminded me to sign that book, Peter.Why ever not? Have you suddenly become bashful about your hard-earned glories? Jill Paton Walsh
“ I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in whi… Edward Bellamy
“ To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of thepast and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. Iwas motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others. Scott Douglas
“ There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wantsto protect culture. The only thing about my pending career thatwas changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community,no… Scott Douglas
“ A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there’s this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet and not to run. But the thing was, that lady—that icon… Scott Douglas
“ We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift. Scott Douglas
“ It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is… Scott Douglas
“ When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people? Scott Douglas
“ When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these bo… Niall Williams
“ I stopped in St. Bernadette's Cemetery one of my favorite places... The trunks of six giant oaks rise like columns supporting a ceiling formed by their interlocking crowns. In the quiet space below, i… Dean Koontz
