Quotes with library

  • My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
  • Baseball has the largest library of law and lore and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
  • 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.
  • Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
  • My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
  • Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
  • It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Victor Hugo A library implies an act of faith.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Norman Cousins A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Herbert Louis 1st Viscount Samuel A library is thought in cold storage.
    Herbert Louis 1st Viscount Samuel
    British politician and diplomat (1870 - 1963)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man's library is a sort of harem.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Baer A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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  • Anita Diamant As a journalist I'm comfortable doing library research, and I did a lot! I had a fellowship at Radcliff for a year which gave me access to the Harvard system.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Baseball has the largest library of law and lore and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
    Sports Illustrated, 17 April 1989
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Lois Horowitz Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30, 000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20, 000.
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  • Anthony Burgess Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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  • Alan Bennett Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Jim Rohn 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.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Nicholson Baker Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
    Nicholson Baker
    American novelist and essayist (1957 - )
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  • Augustine Birrell Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • Ray Bradbury I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for ten years.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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