Lending Library Quotes

#1. Librarians who are arguing and lobbying for clever e-book lending solutions are completely missing the point. They are defending the library-as-warehouse concept, as opposed to fighting for the future, which is librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher, and impresario.

Seth Godin

#2. Choice is our point of power.

Iyanla Vanzant

#3. You can't have a relationship in a bubble. It won't survive.

Kiera Cass

#4. A hardware startup with a lot of funding and a lot of momentum has a lot less risk.

Brendan Iribe

#5. Have you been reading those books that clueless illiterate Duja in charge of the lending library lets you borrow?' 'No, Ma.' 'Then what put you in mind of devils possessing nuns to take over the church?

Renita D'Silva

#6. I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.

Garry Disher

#7. A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

Josh Billings

#8. Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

Anatole France

#9. We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.

Nolan Bushnell

#10. If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

Stephen King