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In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.
In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library.
I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.
Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.
If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.
You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.
My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!
I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
"Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."
A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard!
To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this?
But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.
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.
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.
Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.
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.
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered
She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.
The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them.
Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.
The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.
I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.
It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future.
If you like your remote messaging fat, dumb, and interoperable, you could also look into the SOAP libraries distributed with Ruby.
A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero.
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.
I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.
A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.
The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.
One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.