Library Research Quotes:

I'd best head to the library. Research beckons.

- Rupert Giles

topic: Library Research, Library, Research

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

- Roger Ebert

source: "Critical Eye". Yahoo! Internet Life, September 1998.

topic: Reading, Library Research, Rats, Libraries And Reading, Libraries Books And Reading

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Time, Powerful, Book, Library Research, Inspiring Writing

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

- Alan Dundes

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Graduation, Library Research, Folklore

But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

- Hari Kunzru

topic: Writing, Library, Pages, Library Research

Indiana Jones: Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall. ... So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever marks the spot. Seventy percent of all archaeology is done in the library. Research. Reading.

- Jeffrey Boam

topic: Philosophy, Reading, Class, Library Research, Archaeology

As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.

- Anita Diament

topic: Years, Library, Doing Me, Library Research