Best 93 quotes in «librarian quotes» category

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

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

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

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

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.

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

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

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

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

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.

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

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

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

I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs.

… 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 can I say? Librarians rule.

As an adult, and as a poet of deprivation and ‘being on the edge of things’, Larkin championed public and university libraries. Though sympathetic to Toryism, he came to oppose the 1980s trends—new public management and neo-classical economics—that were antithetical to libraries. For many years, Larkin was university librarian at Hull University’s Brynmor Jones Library. When Larkin first met a new vice chancellor there, the VC asked for the library’s payroll/non-payroll breakdown. ‘Mind your own fucking business’ was the poet’s muffled reply. Larkin served on the board of the British Library, but resigned because of the early starts, and because the ‘fire-trap’ meeting room gave him claustrophobia.