#library

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#life #luxury #necessities

I'll never know everything about anything, but I'll know something about almost everything and that's how I like to live. ↗

— Josh Hanagarne

#faith

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. ↗

— John le Carre

#i #library #man #really #second-hand

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#congress #cover #i #immortal #library

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#comes #delivery #history #ideas #library

There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. ↗

— Rita Dove

#congress #distinct #duties #how #i

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#college #college level #congress #end #english

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#books #century #chemistry #city #could

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. ↗

— Anatole France

#ever #folks #i #left #lend

I basically did all the library research for this book on Google, and it not only saved me enormous amounts of time but actually gave me a much richer offering of research in a shorter time. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#basically #book #did #enormous #gave