#library

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#clothes #condition #designers #get #go

You start to accumulate your library of music. You want that music everywhere - that's the point where we monetize. If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it. ↗

— Sean Parker

#accumulate #buy #everywhere #library #mobility

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#distance #every #free #home #i

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, 'If wet, in the library.' Who could say that this is bad? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#bad #before #better #brandy #chair

A man will turn over half a library to make one book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#half #library #make #man #over

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#conviction #hopes #human #library #more

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#greatest #half #library #make #man

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#alexandria #alphabet #although #burnt #certain

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#around #being #books #enough #everything

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#learning #liberated #library #more #more people