Quotes by Library The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there sitting in any library. Whereas... I think if Joshi thinks [H.P.] Lovecraft was doing anything like that, just throwing together all this stuff to form a kind of anti-mythology, that's where I would disagree with him. Paul Laffoley librarybookthinking Freedom is a public library. Paula Fox public-librarylibrary My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. Paula Spencer librarybranchesidentity I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy. Paula Poundstone librarycommunitypeople It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd. Penelope Lively librarynerdlying For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. Pete Hamill libraryimaginationhouse The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. Pete Hamill libraryvaluesadults I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink. Pete McCarthy librarystudyreading I was working for Alan Lomax in the Library of Congress folk song archive, and starting to realize what a wealth of different kinds of music there was in this country that you never heard on the radio. Pete Seeger librarysongcountry Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library. Pete Seeger graveyardlibrarybones I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week. Pete Seeger librarysongjobs Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. Peter Lewis Allen renaissancelibraryresearch Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries. Peter Porter libraryrealmsgold [General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth. Peter R. Mansoor librarymilitarybook Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it. Peter Drucker librarytoolsneeds Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need. Peter Singer libraryconnectionsneeds Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Peter Singer libraryscholarlong During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life. Philip Emeagwali libraryairportsunited-states The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again. Philip Gilbert Hamerton libraryreadingart We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of # libraries it opens, not the number it closes down. Philip Pullman civilized-societylibrarynumbers«2728293031323334353637»
