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Letter "L" » Libraries
«A library is thought in cold storage.»
«I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.»
«I myself spent hours in the Columbia library as intimidated and embarrassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the world's cuisines, past and present, was available on request.»
Author: Luigi Barzine
| About:
Cooking,
Libraries,
Time
| Keywords:
Columbia, dish, embarrassed, famish, famished, gourmet, gourmets, intimidated, invited, on request, request, restaurant
«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.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
| About:
Libraries,
Mankind
| Keywords:
furniture, lumber, lumbering, lumbers, lumber room, put away, stocked, stocked with
«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.»
Author: Anthony Burgess
(Critic, Man of letter, Novelist)
| About:
Books,
Libraries
| Keywords:
bookstore, bookstores, branch, neighborhood
«If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library.»
«If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Libraries
| Keywords:
Everything You, garden, library
«A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
History,
Libraries,
Life
| Keywords:
delivery, famous, history of ideas, modify, place of birth, Socrates
«A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Libraries
| Keywords:
affection, an event, enduring, event, library, memorials, monument, preservation, public libraries, public library, respected, revolutions, survives, The Monument, trustiest, trusty, wars
«A library implies an act of faith»
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