#libra

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#fairy #fairy tale #fairy tales #great #i

I was a librarian. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#librarian

I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#canvas #destroy #down #everyone #feel

So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.' ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#bottom #chop #going #i #legs

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. ↗

— Vartan Gregorian

#behalf #fragments #humanity #keep #libraries

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#author #books #hanging #hobby #i

We know that we are continually subjected to a huge range of sensory inputs and internal experiences of sensations and thoughts. In fact, almost anything existing in our universe, that can come into human and other animals' purview, can be experienced as information - a bird call, our friend's 'hello,' the rock we trip over, the intuition we have about the honesty of someone we are talking to, a book we read. ↗

— Marcia J. Bates

#information #information-scientists #library-and-information-science #lis #experience

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#brought #comes #contact #great #group

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim. ↗

— Linton Weeks

#libraries #washington-post #information

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature. ↗

— Mary Virginia Provines

#human-nature #job #librarians #library #people