#library

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

— John Braine

#eunuch #harem #library #like #rather

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#hard #idea #library #must #original

First, this isn't about telecommuting, because we still have offices that people will come to regularly when they need to brainstorm together, meet with clients, or do research in the library. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#because #brainstorm #clients #come #first

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

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

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

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

I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#always #different #even #event #events

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library. ↗

— Leo Kottke

#because #bigger #different #every #find

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal. ↗

— James Wolcott

#collections #detective #heads #into #labor