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 born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
true monument lies not on the shelves of libraries, but in the thoughts of men, and in the history of more than one science. { }
In the early days, I promoted the idea of spending time in libraries to gain facts that other investors didn't have. Not many people did that kind of research, so it worked.
The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people would feel that it's their property, so to speak.
Jack Lucas: [to Parry] Some billionaire's got the Holy Grail in his library on Fifth Avenue.
George, Library Night Guard: Yo, smiley. You're really going to miss us. William Somerset: I just might!
I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.
It's easy to blame the nature-deficit disorder on the kids' or the parents' back, but they also need the help of urban planners, schools, libraries and other community agents to find nature that's accessible.
I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation.
Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.
I find it incredible and outrageous that public and school libraries are being forced to close - we'll all pay the price in the long term.
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
A good book praises itself.
I went through and underlined all the funny lines in his book, and by the time I was done, I had underlined his whole book. That would be great if he wrote a humor book, rather than a book on investing.
