Library quotes

“- Will Hunting: The sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a fucking education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public...” (continue)(continue reading)

Matt Damon - Will Hunting
Scott William Winters - Clark

“-Joe: How about a librarian? They’re cool.
-22: Yes, amazing. Who wouldn’t like working at a thankless job you’re always in danger of losing due to budget cuts? Though I do like the idea of randomly shushing people.
-Joe: Look, obviously this…
-22:Shh! Oh, yeah. That’s good.”
Jamie Foxx - Joe

“How dare you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library! Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!”
Liz Taylor - Cleopatra

“The public library is the last bastion of democracy that we have in this country!”
Jeffrey Wright - Anderson

“- Prince Henry: Mother, Father, I want to build a university, with the largest library on the continent, where anyone can study, no matter their station!
- King Francis: All right... who are you... and what have you done with my son?
- Prince Henry: [laughs] Oh, and I want to invite the gypsies to the ball!”
Dougray Scott - Prince Henry
Timothy West - King Francis

“- Bastian: Do you carry how-to books?
- Koreander: How-to books? Does this place look like a supermarket? If you want advice on how to buy real estate or housebreak your goldfish, go to the video store down the street.”
Jonathan Brandis - Bastian Balthazar Bux
Thomas Hill - Koreander

“Okay, Ben, pay attention. I've brought you to the Library of Congress. Why? Because it's the biggest library in the world. Over 20 million books. And they're all saying the same exact thing: Listen to Riley.”
Justin Bartha - Riley Poole

“- Charlene: What makes you think you could be the Librarian?
- Flynn Carsen: Well, I've read a lot of books.”
Jane Curtin - Charlene
Noah Wyle - Flynn Carsen

“- David: What were you doing in a library?
- Jennifer: I got lost.”
Tobey Maguire - David
Reese Witherspoon - Jennifer

“I find libraries very erotic. I find libraries very erotic.”
Josh Charles - Eddy

“- Daniel: One of the rooms they called it the library and they filled it full of books. Thousands of books on every subject and they're all second-hand. You know why?
- Martha: It was cheaper?
- Daniel: No. It's so it looks like they've been read.”
Tom Hollander - Daniel
Monica Potter - Martha

“- Jim Morar: What's our first move when we get there?
- Brandon Sinclair: The big bad public library.
- Jim Morar: Why?
- Brandon Sinclair: Why not?
- Jim Morar: Oh well, as long as you got a reason.”

Todd Allen - Jim Morar
Stephen Nichols - Brandon Sinclair