#libra

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #libra




Did the men steal the papers?" Reynie asked, fearing her response. No, because they are fools," Sophie said bitterly. "They demanded to see the papers, and when I did not answer fast enough -- they were very frightening, you see -- they hurt me so that I was not awake. . . . When I opened my eyes they were still trying to find the papers. They did not understand how we organize the library, you see. They were angry and creating a bad mess. . . . The police were coming and the men decided they must leave. I shouted at them as they left: 'It is a free and public library! All you had to do was ask!


Trenton Lee Stewart


#organization #public-library #reference #men

Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of old book dust.


Rebecca Makkai


#movies

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.


Simeon Strunsky


#buses #democracy #less #library #more

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.


John Green


#books #donuts #librarians #simile #kids

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.


Jane Austen


#library #reading #read

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.


Lemony Snicket


#reading #read

[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read...


Neil Gaiman


#libraries #library #reading #read

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.


Neil Gaiman


#librarians #internet

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man


T.S. Eliot


#humanity #library #future

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.


Lemony Snicket


#history #library #tears #tears