#libra

Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. ↗

— William Hurt

#basis #become #calculated #courage #guys

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

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. ↗

— Hugo Ball

#allow #beautiful #begin #burn #everyone

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#college #college level #congress #end #english

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 couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#books #floor #furniture #go #i

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#basically #ever #everything #happened #i

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. ↗

— Rick Moody

#back #boston #century #england #fact

If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#cars #crisis #cuban #cuban missile crisis #driven

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#distance #every #free #home #i