#libra

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#art #books #hid #hour #i

I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing? ↗

— Paul Begala

#ago #america #bill #bill clinton #clinton

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#found #friend #good #library #life

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library. ↗

— Frank Black

#back #brother #cost #free #get

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#entirety #guilty #his #knowing #library

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#libraries #past #without

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#accessible #after #anyone #black #black hole

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#history #librarians #past #past history #people

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#books #bookstore #branch #chain #city

Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library. ↗

— Laura Bush

#american #child #every #library #school