#libra

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. ↗

— Rodney Dangerfield

#blind #blind man #day #face #fell

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#arrived #computer #during #first #first time

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#food #historian #libraries #muse #shelter

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#door #library #me #more #nothing

Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#back #cabinet #college #copy #days

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them. ↗

— John Goodman

#along #blues #checking #harp #i

In addition to that, Mono has produced a very large set of extra libraries. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#extra #large #libraries #mono #produced

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

Libraries raised me. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#me #raised

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both. ↗

— John Callahan

#between #bookstores #both #caught #competing