Cecil B. DeMille Quotes

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

Why buy a book when you can join a library.

I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.

It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.

It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation.

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

You are a shelf of books without the pages.

The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its remnants and qualities for me to use -- my words piled up, my texts, my manuscripts, my loves.

Some men have only one book in them, others a library.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.