#libra

My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#along #between #could #find #found

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#else #everything #exists #fact #important

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#books #correcting #course #expected #i

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#educational #find #go #good #good book

The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries. ↗

— Art Modell

#football #football team #important #libraries #more

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

Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

#basically #crave #ever #got #growing

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. ↗

— David Johansen

#irish #librarian #mother #new #new york

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. ↗

— Walter Wager

#delusion #i #keep #library #manuscripts

A library is thought in cold storage. ↗

— Herbert Samuel

#library #storage #thought