#library

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#library #wild

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poor

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

He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad. ↗

— Brian Selznick

#dreams #library #dreams

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#bound #especially #i #incredible #library

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out. ↗

— Joan Collins

#book #career #charge #dynasty #library

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy! ↗

— Nigel Dennis

#am #another #books #busy #currently

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#been #drunk #i #library #me

I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#always #arithmetic #entertainment #exercises #had