#libra

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

A man will turn over half a library to make one book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#half #library #make #man #over

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#conviction #hopes #human #library #more

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#book #books #capital #case #constitute

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

— David Johansen

#irish #librarian #mother #new #new york

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#greatest #half #library #make #man

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#boundless #brother #door #embrace #energy

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#around #behalf #crosses #every #fearsome

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#institution #libraries #off #rip #you

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#alexandria #alphabet #although #burnt #certain