#libra

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. ↗

— William Hurt

#basis #become #calculated #courage #guys

Having come to the conclusion that there was so much to do that she didn’t know where to start, Mrs Fowler decided not to start at all. She went to the library, took Diary of a Nobody from the shelves and, returning to her wicker chair under the lime tree, settled down to waste what precious hours still remained of the day. ↗

— Richmal Crompton

#libraries #reading #time #to-do-list #family

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#american #american society #being #cut #destroy

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. ↗

— Hugo Ball

#allow #beautiful #begin #burn #everyone

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#life #luxury #necessities

I'll never know everything about anything, but I'll know something about almost everything and that's how I like to live. ↗

— Josh Hanagarne

#faith

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#comes #delivery #history #ideas #library

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#books #century #chemistry #city #could

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#basically #book #did #enormous #gave

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

— Neil Gaiman

#librarians #internet