#library

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#reading #library

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#community #democratic #entrance #interest #library

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

#became #because #become #card #catalog

Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library. ↗

— Chelsea Clinton

#great #great time #having #i #library

During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life. ↗

— Philip Emeagwali

#arrived #computer #during #first #first time

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#been #drunk #i #library #me

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#ever #found #i #library #local

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#every #history #library #only #should

Dr. Beall gave him the first shot, followed closely by the second. He said, "I'll check for a heartbeat." I said, "You don't need to. I can see it in his eyes." Dewey was gone. ↗

— Vicki Myron

#death #dewey #library #sad #death

For him that stealeth,or borroweth and returneth not,this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for ever. Curse on book thieves, from the monastery of San Pedro, Barcelona, Spain ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#library #malediction #change