Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
Michael Caine
WindowGrowing UpWorldLibraryUp
I started writing songs in high school, so you had to write this stuff out and register it with the Library of Congress. You had to learn how to do that stuff.
Gordon Lightfoot
SchoolWritingHigh SchoolLibrary
I remember, in school during English lessons, I would ask the teacher what were the most difficult books to read, and when she'd say 'Ulysses' or something, I'd run off to the library to check out a copy, eager to attempt the most difficult mountain.
Stephen Hough
TeacherMountainSchoolLibraryRun
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
Eric Idle
AgeLibraryNobodyNowLivingDead
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Simeon Strunsky
TimePeopleDemocracyLibraryWant
My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.
Elise Broach
ArtSchoolMomLibraryLanguageBig
As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.
Tracy Chapman
TimeChildLibrarySpentLot
Television is like a library. There are a lot of library books in it, and you have to pick and choose what you take out of it.
David L. Wolper
LibraryYouChooseTelevisionOut
I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.
Tom Clancy
BookLibraryNameYouCongressSee
I'm old enough, by a long shot, to remember going to the library and spending days researching. If I was looking for a line from a poem or something else I needed, that would be the trip I would have to take.
Charlie Kaufman
LookingLibraryEnoughRememberLong
Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.
Rod Lurie
DayWritingLibraryWeekendRemember
This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
Bill Gates
AmazingLibraryWholeComputerThing
I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
Mike Myers
MotherMemoriesHappyMeLibrary
I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation.
Alex Ebert
MusicPeopleLibraryFeelDoingYou
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.
Louis L'Amour
EducationLibraryReachWayOffice
At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.
Terry Semel
PowerGreatLibraryMediaHelpNew
I want to take everything I have in me, weave it, merge it with the beauty that is in the Library of Congress, all the resources, the guidance of the staff and departments, and launch it with the heart-shaped dreams of the people.
Juan Felipe Herrera
BeautyDreamsPeopleMeLibrary
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson
ManBookLibraryWillOverTurn
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.
Joseph Lancaster
EducationLibraryInformationWell
My father had a big brick cell phone, before anyone had a cell phone, because he was really just into that kind of thing - communication devices. I grew up between my father's laboratory and my mother's library.
Rashid Johnson
CommunicationFatherMotherLibrary
When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a book on my next birthday.' I thought historical fiction would be easiest because I was a university professor and know my way around a library, and it seemed easier to look things up than make them up.
Diana Gabaldon
BirthdayWritingStartBookLibrary
I spent many, many hours in the stack at the University of Washington library just wandering around, when my dad was working, as a kid.
Paul Allen
LibraryWashingtonKidUniversity
I lived in the library with my grandmother as a child. I still love the smell of books; the library card is still my friend.
Dawn Richard
LoveFriendChildLibrarySmell
Where I grew up, we had the three TV networks, maybe two radio stations, no cable TV. We still had a long-distance party line in our neighborhood, so you could listen to all your neighbors' phone calls. We had a very small public library, and the nearest bookstore was an hour away.
Marc Andreessen
SmallLibraryYouPhonePartyThree
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