#libra

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#comes #delivery #famous #history #ideas

That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before. ↗

— Al Jarreau

#brought #comes #contact #great #group

Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of. ↗

— Gennifer Flowers

#after #audio #being #bill #bill clinton

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders. ↗

— Mark Foley

#books #country #i #library #offenders

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. ↗

— Vartan Gregorian

#behalf #fragments #humanity #keep #libraries

We know that we are continually subjected to a huge range of sensory inputs and internal experiences of sensations and thoughts. In fact, almost anything existing in our universe, that can come into human and other animals' purview, can be experienced as information - a bird call, our friend's 'hello,' the rock we trip over, the intuition we have about the honesty of someone we are talking to, a book we read. ↗

— Marcia J. Bates

#information #information-scientists #library-and-information-science #lis #experience

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. ↗

— Joseph Howe

#before #books #cannot #exclude #few

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. ↗

— John Braine

#eunuch #harem #library #like #rather

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. ↗

— Laura Bush

#allow #always #answers #ask #child

If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#different #home #i #kids #library