#library

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy. ↗

— Marian Burros

#beef #done #get #gravy #hold

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#conviction #hopes #human #library #more

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

#greatest #half #library #make #man

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#curiosity #developed #except #frequent #had

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library. ↗

— Peter Singer

#close #devise #digital #genome #human

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. ↗

— Peter Singer

#containing #dreamed #ever #everything #library

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#library #bible

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#library #programmers #reinvent #reinvent the wheel #saves

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

#about #carry #courses #fieldwork #folklore

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#jane-austen #library