#libra

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#political

Why try to memorize everything? The only things I ever memorize are my address and my phone number. Everything else you can look up in a library. It's the understanding of the concepts that's important. ↗

— James Freihaut

#memory #science #science

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. ↗

— Keith Richards

#libraries #library #awesome

Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit. ↗

— Jeanette Winter

#love

When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect. Nothing more threatening to a politician than a well read working class. ~Alan Moore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2qLgZ... ↗

— Alan Moore

#imagination

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

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#happy #i #imagine #library #library book

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#book #both #father #library #me

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#along #between #could #find #found