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I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.
Television is like a library. There are a lot of library books in it, and you have to pick and choose what you take out of it.
If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing.
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.
The New York Public Library is a wonderful gem. I go there to get away from the bustle of the city. They have an incredible collection of menus from all over the city.
When I think about music in the future, I don't make a distinction between what's radio, what used to be the music library, and so on.
The Internet has kind of allowed me to go to a virtual library whenever I want to find out something about something and not use one source but find multiple ways to research certain topics or subjects.
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.
I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.
You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an Internet cafe or a public library, and you can put your thoughts out in public.
I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.
Maybe they're not 'books,' but 'Acme Novelty Library' and 'Eightball' are two comics I can't get enough of.
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.
I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Shorts' or any of my books shelved.
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.
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 had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.
The library companies have made it so that music is so cheap to license. They do sound-alikes of every band, and it makes it harder for the actual bands to get any decent paychecks for licensing.
I got into Kiss before I got into anybody. The first thing I heard was 'Detroit Rock City.' I heard it in the school library, where I lived.
Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.
My music library is all over the place. I've got A$AP Rocky; I've got Billy Joel. I've got, like, Celine Dion albums that I just worship. There's all kinds of different stuff.
I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later discovering Barbra Streisand by listening to her albums at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh really changed everything for me.
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
I haven't been very enthusiastic about the commercialization of children's literature. Kids should borrow books from the library and not necessarily be buying them.
If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.
The real tragedy of the Library at Alexandria was not that the incendiaries burned immensely, but that they had neither the leisure nor the taste to discriminate.
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.
What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
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.
When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.
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.
I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.
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.
The access to information the web provides is both daunting and exciting. Information that was once secreted away in library stacks is now so much more easily available.
If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library. I was around nine years old when I began choosing my own books in earnest.
I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
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