Susan Sarandon Quotes

A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want to sit and think. But particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books. If you want to find out about something, the information is in the reference books---the dictionaries, the encyclopedias, the atlases. If you like to be told a story, the library is the place to go.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

Fridays after school, especially when the weather was lousy, Mom would take me to the library. She'd let me check out whatever I wanted, and I checked out a lot.

My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I was curious about they'd get for me from the library. Books were a kind of a resistance to reality. I liked to imagine worlds that were different. I still do.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.

Books are packaged dreams.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

To start with, look at all the books.

A library is the door to many lives.

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.