#libra

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#libraries #library

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello? ↗

— Bill Watterson

#library

As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#library

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! ↗

— Charles Ogden

#librarians #libraries #library

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#born #child #fairy #father #fire

The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#adapted #books #containing #education #expensive

The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#country #libraries #neglecting #our #shame

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#always #been #censorship #forefront #libraries

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now. ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#been #centrality #i #information #libraries

If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#because #been #before #burdening #clear