I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.
Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.
Affliction is the best book in a minister's library.
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.
The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.
A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.
If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.
I liked reading and working out my ideas in the midst of that endless crowd walking in and out of the (library) looking for something. I, too, was seeking fame and fortune by sitting at the end of a long golden table next to the sets of American authors on the open shelves.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.
There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end, when he says that the stories are so illuminating that they must be engraved and encased in gold and put in the palace library, the people who compile the book are telling us that this is a collection of human wisdom.
Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor.