#library

The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #quiet-please #librarians

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#entirety #guilty #his #knowing #library

Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely. ↗

— Rita Dove

#book #choose #entirely #feeling #go

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind. ↗

— George Weah

#america #behind #being #books #coming

Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them. ↗

— John Goodman

#along #blues #checking #harp #i

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

A library implies an act of faith. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#faith #implies #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

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