#libra

The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #quiet-please #librarians

Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise. ↗

— Rett MacPherson

#librarians

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library. ↗

— Frank Black

#back #brother #cost #free #get

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#accessible #after #anyone #black #black hole

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#history #librarians #past #past history #people

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#became #because #become #card #catalog

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out. ↗

— Joan Collins

#book #career #charge #dynasty #library

...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and a hundred years everyone had been able freely to handle our codices, the majority of them would no longer exist. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#librarians #life

To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community. ↗

— R. David Lankes

#community #librarians #libraries #change

life is full of calibration ↗

— Aditia Rinaldi

#change #life #change