#libra

Libraries are where it all begins. ↗

— Rita Dove

#libraries #where

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#food #historian #libraries #muse #shelter

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#door #library #me #more #nothing

Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#back #cabinet #college #copy #days

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#because #bored #channels #death #early

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#before #classes #did #doctors #guinea

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors. ↗

— Bruce Coville

#heroes #librarians #teachers #teacher

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them. ↗

— Mark Twain

#books #libraries #wisdom #wisdom

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid. ↗

— John Green

#books #donuts #librarians #simile #kids

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#thelema #willful-ignorance #sin