Whatever you call me, my parents encouraged me to go to college and become a book lover, and to trust that I could do nearly anything if I could find the right book at the library.It was true; books h...
I became interested in librarians while researching my first book, about obituaries. With the exception of a few showy eccentrics, like the former soldier in Hitler's army who had a sex change and too...
(pl. ) of Library
THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.
My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search.
Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress. It is both the key and the quest that advances mankind. The search for knowledge is what brought men to the moon; but it took knowledge...
The library was the best place in the world.
To love books mean to love Libraries, to love libraries mean to love knowledge and to love knowledge mean to love creator.
I am often asked a stock question: 'Have you actually read all those books?' To this I have my answer ready: 'Is there anybody who has read all the books in his library?' That would be like claiming t...
My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever wer...
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
There's a term you don't hear these days, one you used to hear all the time when the Carnegie branches opened: Palaces for the People. The library really is a palace. It bestows nobility on people who...
Anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed,Knows the high art of what and how to read.
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring...
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