#libra

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

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home. ↗

— Matt Damon

#anybody #bored #day #few #get

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library ↗

— Carl Sagan

#communal-memory #humanity #humanity-and-society #humans #libraries

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#library #stupidity

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#languor #libraries #sexuality #dreams

Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons. ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#libraries #sarah-j-maas #throne-of-glass #idea

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#library #wild

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poor

My library is an archive of longings. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#library #longing #books

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#library #university #universe