#libra

A library is thought in cold storage. ↗

— Herbert Samuel

#library #storage #thought

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#race #tedious #tend

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. ↗

— Huston Smith

#dead #exclusively #facts #full #hand

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#i #libraries #standards #tools #would

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

#library #serve #standard #teacher #thus

The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need. ↗

— Kate Capshaw

#becomes #best #emotion #get #go

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#jane-austen #library

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap. ↗

— David Eddings

#librarians #libraries #library #scholar #scholarship

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

She's a librarian, Sim said. They're not teachers; don't give you half as much hassle. If there's a fire in the school and I've got to choose who I'm gonna save - a teacher or a librarian - the teacher's gonna burn every time. (p. 24) ↗

— Keith Gray

#librarian #teacher #teens #humor