Best 93 quotes in «librarian quotes» category

This woman? Mine. Because I’m hers. Heart, body, and soul. She’s it. I’m done.

What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic Library, Scribes of the Double House of Life, Mistresses of the House of Books, or Ordainers of the Universe. 'Librarian' - that mouth-contorting, graceless grind of a word, that dry gulch in the dictionary between 'libido' and 'licentious' - it practically begs you to envision a stoop-shouldered loser, socks mismatched, eyes locked in a permanent squint from reading too much microfiche. If it were up to me, I would abolish the word entirely and turn back to the lexicological wisdom of the ancients, who saw librarians not as feeble sorters and shelvers but as heroic guardians. In Assyrian, Babylonian, and Egyptian cultures alike, those who toiled at the shelves were often bestowed with a proud, even soldierly, title: Keeper of the Books. - p.113

You are like the beach at dawn when the fog comes in; each of those things is lovely on its own, but together, they can be magical.

. . . when a woman has a husband And you've got none, Why should she take advice from you? Even if you can quote Balzac and Shakespeare And all them other highfalutin' Greeks.

With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaqua’s hands. “One of my favorites.

You needn't trouble yourself. He's only a librarian.

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

You're still like a chocolate cupcake while I'm that weird lemon-white chocolate cookie people always pick last because it's weird.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.

I was 13 and my mom was a librarian so I told her to check out every music book she could possibly find. I wanted to know the business part of being in the music business.

I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Present company excluded, this looked to be the most pleasant detention ever experienced by mankind. Further proof that librarians should run the world-or a least be in charge of detention at Bathory High.

Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.

… A librarian hands me a book of poetry – says it'll be my way of staying alone. Most words mean nothing when there's no right font for my feelings.

A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a "true reflection of our history," whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful arrangement of computer codes. The librarian is the organizer, the animating spirit behind it, and the navigator. Her job is to create order out of the confusion of the past, even as she enables us to blast into the future.

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.