The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that.
Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.
Each time someone dies, a library burns.
But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in it's entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or thirteen-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next 'Twilight' movie.
We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire
I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.
I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.
I have a library room with four desks in it. On one of them is a spec, on one of them is a present work, on one of them is reading for a future work, on another desk is a novel I'm not doing until I'm a hundred and fifty, and things like that. But, contractually speaking, you just do one at a time when it's on and paid and live. You do your real day on one project and the rest is just literary life. Or intrusions.
In my day the library was a wonderful place. . . . We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs. . . it was a sanctuary. . . . So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
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.
I wanted a library like this. . . [] A cave of words that I'd made myself.
In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.
The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.
The studious silence of the library. . . Tranquil brightness.
The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.