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FROM: "Lynn K. Silence" <[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 4/25/02, 10:06 AM
Lynn K. Silence, Manager, Collection Development
St. Louis County Library
300 Clarkson Road
Ellisville, Missouri 63011
Voice: (636) 227-1138 Fax: (636) 227-9632
"I can stand in a library and hear myriad voices
around me as though I was standing in the middle
of a vast choir...of knowledge and beauty." Gerald Durrell
FROM: Sherri Lazenby <[removed]@dallaslibrary.org>
REC'D: 4/25/02, 10:38 AM
Try this site: http://www.ifla.org/I/humour/subj.htm
<http://www.ifla.org/I/humour/subj.htm>
Sherri L. Lazenby
[removed]@dallaslibrary.org <[removed]@dallaslibrary.org>
Branch Manager
Audelia Road Branch Library
Dallas Public Library System
10045 Audelia Road
Dallas, TX 75238
(214) 670-1350
(214) 670-0790 FAX
-----Original Message-----
From: Lynn K. Silence [[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 9:55 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Quotes
I hate to repeat something that has been done recently, but my hard
drive
fried or crashed or whatever, and I have lost all my bookmarks...I
know,
backup! Anyway, I know that someone in FictionL gave the address
for a
site that has quotations about libraries, books and reading. Could
someone
give it to me? We're preparing a library cookbook and want to pad
it with
quotes.
Lynn K. Silence, Manager, Collection Development
St. Louis County Library
300 Clarkson Road
Ellisville, Missouri 63011
Voice: (636) 227-1138 Fax: (636) 227-9632
"I can stand in a library and hear myriad voices
around me as though I was standing in the middle
of a vast choir...of knowledge and beauty." Gerald Durrell
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FROM: "Lynn K. Silence" <[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us>
REC'D: 4/25/02, 10:38 AM
lks
At 10:30 AM 4/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Lynn,
>
>Try this site: http://www.ifla.org/I/humour/subj.htm
><http://www.ifla.org/I/humour/subj.htm>
>
>
>Sherri L. Lazenby
[removed]@dallaslibrary.org <[removed]@dallaslibrary.org>
>Branch Manager
>Audelia Road Branch Library
>Dallas Public Library System
>10045 Audelia Road
>Dallas, TX 75238
>(214) 670-1350
>(214) 670-0790 FAX
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynn K. Silence [[removed]@imail.slcl.lib.mo.us]
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 9:55 AM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Quotes
>
> I hate to repeat something that has been done recently, but my hard
>drive
> fried or crashed or whatever, and I have lost all my bookmarks...I
>know,
> backup! Anyway, I know that someone in FictionL gave the address
>for a
> site that has quotations about libraries, books and reading. Could
>someone
> give it to me? We're preparing a library cookbook and want to pad
>it with
> quotes.
>
> Lynn K. Silence, Manager, Collection Development
> St. Louis County Library
> 300 Clarkson Road
> Ellisville, Missouri 63011
> Voice: (636) 227-1138 Fax: (636) 227-9632
> "I can stand in a library and hear myriad voices
> around me as though I was standing in the middle
> of a vast choir...of knowledge and beauty." Gerald Durrell
>
>
>
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Lynn K. Silence, Manager, Collection Development
St. Louis County Library
300 Clarkson Road
Ellisville, Missouri 63011
Voice: (636) 227-1138 Fax: (636) 227-9632
"I can stand in a library and hear myriad voices
around me as though I was standing in the middle
of a vast choir...of knowledge and beauty." Gerald Durrell
FROM: Julie Roberts <[removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 5/2/02, 7:56 PM
'Cause that's what Hermione does. When in doubt, go to the library."
Ron Weasley from "Harry Potter"
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois (1885-1967)
when bored: "Read. Don't read to elevate yourself. Read for fun. Later, when
you are not bored, you can read to elevate yourself."
"A closed mind is like a closed book-
Just a block of wood" anon
"To get the most out of reading anything, think while you do it" anon
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting." Edmund Burke
"When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing."
Blasie Pascal
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729)
"There are some books one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an
adult can come upon too late to savor" Phyllis McGinley
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of
it." P J O'Rourke
"Inside every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out." - Unknown
"We read, frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than
our own. Harold Bloom, literary critic
"Never apologize for your reading tastes." Rosenberg
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.
Anne Michaels, citing a Hebrew saying in Fugitive Pieces
"I cannot live without books" Thomas Jefferson
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings
with high thoughts." Anzia Yezierska, novelist
A teacher took my hand, gave me a book, touched my heart and saved my soul!
anon
What we loved as a child remains in our hearts eternally! anon
"I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book I can be
anybody;
I read because the words that build the story become mine, to build my life;
I read not for happy endings, but for new beginnings; I'm just beginning
myself and I wouldn't mind a map;
I read because I have friends who don't and young though they are, they're
beginning to run out of material;
I read because every journey begins at the library and it's time for me to
start packing;
I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town and I'm
going to go everywhere and meet everybody and I want to be ready."
Richard Peck
The best time for planning a book is while you are doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him: for what he reads as a
task will do him little good. Samuel Johnson
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day
makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
"Love me, Love my dog" cuts close to something basic in human nature. In
the world of books it can be rendered: find faults in my pet author and I
will doubt your sanity and hate your viscera.
Orville Prescott
I would be content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think
decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Anna Quindlan
Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the
world and understanding myself...
Anna Quindlan
Current books are modishly sleek inside and out, low-fat, low-cholesterol,
sort of like Lite beer-not bad on a hot day yet hardly the thing for a
seasoned drinker.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz-1996
There are two motives for reading a book": one, that you enjoy it; the
other, that you can boast about it. Bertrand Russell
Come, take choice of all my library and so beguile they sorrow.
Shakespeare
?The time to read is now, not hereafter. We must make time or miss our joy.?
Holbrook Jackson
I know my own times. I am in them. I have only to walk down Broadway or
Main Street to see what is happening. It is the times of the dead I do not
know. The dead are exditing precisely because they are not us. They are
what we will never know except through their books. Their trivia are our
exotica. As writers, transmitters, the dead can be more alive than some of
the living.
Lynne Sharon Schwartz-1996
Then I thought of reading--the nice and subtle happiness of reading...this
joy not dulled by Age, this polite unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene,
life-long intoxication. Logan Pearsall Smith
That was excellently observed, say I, when I read a passage in an author,
where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him
to be mistaken. Jonathan Swift
There are times when I simply sit and look at the books, remembering not so
much their content as how they nade me feel and the times, people and places
in mu life that I associate with them. Scott VanGerpen
Let us read and let us dance-two amusements that will never do any harm to
the world. Voltaire
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it!
John Witherspoon
"The universe is made of stories not atoms." Muriel Rukeyeser
"Stories are for people what water is for plants." Linda Hogan
"Reading is a vacation you can take everyday." Bob Greene
"In the beginning there was the book, and the book inspired
and angered others to write books, and when the people could
no longer cope...they begat libraries, and the Lord said, 'I don't
know what else we can do.' " Anonymous
"The one best and sufficient reason for a man to buy a book is because he
thinks he will be happier with it than without it."
A. Edward Newton
"What is reading but silent converstaion."Walter Savage Landor
"When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness."
Vincent Starrett
"The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an
ancestral portrait." Anatole Broyard
"Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn't play with fire but
those who make our fingers burn." Stephen Vizinczey
"The good book is always a book of travel; it is about a life's journey."
H. M. Tominson
'My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
Abraham Lincoln
"It is life that shakes and rocks us; it is literature which stablizes and
confirms." Heathcote William Garrod
"I wish to have one copy of every book in the world."
Sir Thomas Phillips
"I know not how to abstain from reading." Samuel Pepys
"I've been in love three hundred times in my life, and all but five were
with books." Lee Glickstein
"Read in order to Live." Gustave Flaubert
There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair
job to be done around the house-- Joe Ryan
"We are made whole by books, as by great spaces and the stars."
Mary Carolyn Davies
'Nobody has ever measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold."
Zelda Fitzgerald
'The proper study of mankind is books." Aldous Huxley
'It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
Laura Ingalls Wilder
'My home is where my books are.' Ellen Thompson
"There are three rules for writing the great novel. Only no one knows what
they are." Somerset Maugham
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero
"Books are food, libraries so many dishes of meat, served out for several
palates... We eat them from love or necessity, as other foods, but mostly
from love." Holbrook Jackson
"For him that stealeth a Book from this Library, let it change into a
serpent in his hand and rend him. Let Bookworms gnaw his entrails in token
of the Worm that dieth not." Edmund Lester Pearson
"... the library isn't sexy or fashionable. It isn't a place to see or be
seen. But in times when nothing is certain, it gives me endless comfort and
pleasure." Sacha Cohen
"Wear the old coat and buy the book."Austa Phelps in The Theory of Preaching
"Choose thy friends like thy books, few but choice." James Howell
?Looking back on a world and wasted life, I realize that I have especially
sinned in neglecting to read novels.? G. K. Chesterton
"When I enter a Library . . . I still have a reassuring sense that it is
going to tell me all I need to know."
Susan Allen Toth
"The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul
reaching for infinity." Diane Gordon Kadanoff
It is not what we read, but what we remember that makes us
learned. It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful.
And, it is not a few faint wishes but a lifelong struggle that makes us
valiant.Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer)
"A great book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted
at the end. You should live several lives while reading it."
William Styron
'We never know what our words mean to other people, only what they mean to
us.' anon
"The final test of a novel will be our affection for it."
E.M. Forster
"If you didn't want them to think, you shouldn't have given them library
cards."
Line spoken by Elliott Gould as Harry Bailey in "Getting Straight",
written by Robert Kaufman, directed by Richard Rush
Janice James quoted by Robert Morley in The Pleasures of Age,
I've travelled the world twice over,
Met the famous; saints and sinners.
Poets and artist, kings and queens.
Old stars and hopeful beginners,
I've been where no-one's been before,
Learned secrets from writers and cooks
All with one library ticket
To the wonderful world of books.
Oh, for a booke and a shady nooke.
Aeyther in doore or out.
With the greene leaves whispering overhead.
Or the streete cryes all about;
Where I maie reade all at my ease
Both of the newe and olde.
For a jollie goode booke whereon to looke
Is better to me than golde. Anon
On a Booklover's Shelves:
Gaze at these shelves-the man beneath shines clear.
These volumes. ;like confessionals, contain
The readings of the spirit's atmosphere.
The autograph of his selective brain
Transport and longings, as upon a chart,
Are here made visible; he keeps a trust
With song, romance and drama, music, art,
Travel of flower-lore--a lifelong list!
Turn from the clean new pages-peer beyond
At those dog-earned and scrawled with many a note.
There, mirrored like a landscape in a pond.
Reflections of his clouds and summits float.
Time's last recording angel surely looks
Not at man's deeds alone, but at his books. Stanton A Coblentz
There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away.
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll;
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul!
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
BOOK(From Mollie's notebooks of poems)
I always think the cover of
A book is like a door.
Which opens into someone's house
Where I've not been before.
A pirate or a fairy queen
May life the latch for me;
I always wonder, when I knock,
What welcome there will be.
And when I find a house that's dull
I do not often stay;
But when I find one full of friends,
I'm apt to spend the day.
I never know what sort of folks
Will be within, you see;
And that's why reading always is
So interesting to me.
Annie Fellows Johnston
The Bookshop has a thousand books.
All colors, hues and tinges.
And every cover is a door
That turns on magic hinges.
Nancy Byrd Turner (Find poem. Is there more?)
FROM: Julie Roberts <[removed]@rolling-meadows.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 5/2/02, 7:56 PM
"We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and
don'ts: we need books, time, and silence." ~Philip Pullman
"They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of
all the magical books, which was true enough, but what
made it really one of the most dangerous places there could
ever be was the simple fact that it was a library."
---Terry Pratchet "Guards! Guards!"
"he had allowed his daughters to use his library without
restraint and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy
of speech than the run of a good library"
TEMPEST TOST Robertson Davies
"Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of
American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and
the cocktail in the other."
--Louis Stanley Jast
"I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones."
Edward Gorey
(Boston Globe article, 1998, as quoted in Salon)
"Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is
holding ustogether, stories and compassion."
- Barry Lopez, from an interview in _Poets & Writers_
Mar/Apr. 1994
first encountered as the epigraph to Charles de Lint's lovely
novelabout stories, _Someplace to be Flying_)
"I'd best head to the library. Research beckons" -- Rupert
Giles
"Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These
are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on
God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank
and eccentric and mouth-breather there is" --Garrison
Keillor, _Lives of the Cowboys_
Willow: Gee, maybe we should help Giles. He might be in danger.
Xander: Nah, he's like Super Librarian. People forget,
Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.
_Buffy the Vampire Slayer_
"To look around at a roomful of readers, each bent over a
book, was to realize that this posture is among the most
beautiful of human transfigurations." Editorial, NEW
YORK TIMES, 11/16/98 ~
"The answers are there; you just have to know where to
look." --
Dana Scully
"I imagine heaven's like this," I said. "Perfect surroundings,
and angels wafting in with tea." Miss Read/Farther Afield
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My favorite is from Off the Wall at Callahans by Spider Robinson.
"Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information.
Don't ever piss one off".
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What a wonderful way to start the day! Would you mind sharing the
quotes you get? And I have a definition-type one for you (but
unfortunately don't have the source) "The Library--the place where the
experience of the past can meet the needs of the present." And the poem
by Richard Armour that we used on the program for our building
dedication in February...
Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds."
"In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by
others."
--Andre Maurois
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"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, Art is knowing which
ones
to keep." -anonymous
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Have your colleague check out this web site: (GREAT website!)
http://www.ifla.org/I/humour/subj.htm
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Buy or borrow a copy of "Speaking of Books: The Best Things Ever
Said About Books and Book Collecting" edited by Rob Kaplan and Harold
Rabinowitz ( Crown Publishers, 2001 ISBN 0-609-60852-5). I edit a
monthly newsletter for our members, and almost always use a few
quotes from this title as fillers. My current favorite: "The covers
of this book are too far apart."
Ambrose Bierce, a one-sentence book review quoted in Bitter Bierce by
C.H. Grattan (1929).
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This is so cool - thank you for making the request.
Although it may not work for your PA, I love my niece's sig quote:
"Are all librarians this much trouble?" -Brendan Fraiser in The Mummy
Returns
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From the 1999 film, THE MUMMY, spoken by one of the main characters,
Rachel Weisz as "Evelyn": "I'm proud of what I do......I'm a librarian".
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http://www.ala.org/pio/libraryquotes.html
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Here are some favorite quotes on libraries, books and knowledge. My
favorite is
the one by Groucho Marx. I think some of these quotes would make good
bookmarks - perhaps for next year's National Library Week.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too
dark
to read.
Groucho Marx
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed
and digested.
Francis Bacon
My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I
inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it
should
end there."
Clare Booth Luce
We read to know we are not alone.
C.S. Lewis
To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new
friend;
to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.
Anonymous, Chinese saying
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you
learn,
the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't.
Mark Twain
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who
doesn't
know how to read.
Benjamin Franklin
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still
attached to life at all four corners.
Virginia Woolf
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
Socrates
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll
get me
a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln
I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson
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FROM: "BookBitch" <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 5/3/02, 9:15 AM
A book is a present you can open again and again. - anonymous
"I don't buy everything I read -- I haven't even read everything I've
bought" -Barenaked Ladies, "This is where it ends"
It's easy to make a small fortune in the book business; all you have to do
is start with a large fortune. - anonymous
"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He
thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there
are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use." -
Ernest Hemingway
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out
a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again." - Oscar Wilde
On not ending a sentence in a preposition: Sir Winston Churchill is reputed
to have said, "It is the sort of arrant nonsense up with which I will not
put."
A book tightly shut is but a block of paper. - Chinese Proverb
"Books may well be the only true magic." - Alice Hoffman
"I don't know where you'd find such a magazine." - Kenneth Koch, on the
stipulations set by a benefactor to the Harvard Advocate that the staff
contain no Jews, homosexuals, or drunks.
"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and
clothes."
- Desiderius Erasmus
"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered." -
W.H. Auden
"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading
them." - Joseph Brodsky
"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another
mind." - James Russell Lowell
"Everything in the world exists to end up in a book."- Stéphane Mallarmé
"A classic--something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to
read." - Mark Twain
"A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent." - Logan Pearsall
Smith
"The world may be full of fourth-rate writers, but it's also full of
fourth-rate readers." - Stan Barstow
"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thin book is useful
to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat
atlas can be used to cover up a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old
fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw
at a noisy cat." - Mark Twain
"The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television and liquor. A guy
who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss
after supper and his day is over. Finished." - Louis-Ferdinand Céline
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read
toward the right and I recommend this method. - James Thurber, on editors'
reading habits
"The covers of this book are too far apart." Ambrose Bierce, a one-sentence
book review quoted in Bitter Bierce by C.H. Grattan (1929)
*****WARNING*****
This is one of my favorite quotes, but it does contain an expletive which
some may find offensive.
*****************
"So, you're the man who can't spell 'fuck.'" — Dorothy Parker to Norman
Mailer...publishers had convinced Mailer to replace the word with a
euphemism, "fug," in his 1948 book, "The Naked and the Dead."
Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Palm Beach County Library System
I am the BookBitch
www.bookbitch.com
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