Top 100 A Librarian Quotes
#1. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.
Max Barry
#2. When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though she sits there specifically so that she may be interrupted, even though being interrupted for reasons like this by people like me is her very job.
Aaron Swartz
#3. My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
David Johansen
#4. An old librarian once said to me, whatever we deal with, coming here is always a visual reward.
Josh Hanagarne
#5. The Librarian looked at his charges approvingly, made his last rounds of the slumbering shelves, and then dragged his blanket underneath his desk, ate a goodnight banana, and fell asleep.
Terry Pratchett
#6. The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?
Piers Anthony
#7. The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#8. I am proud of what I am. I am - a librarian.
Rachel Weisz
#9. Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon
You deserve to be taken out of circulation!
Karl Kesel
#10. Remember, if confronted by a librarian while looking for a book to check out, do not attempt to escape by climbing a tree. There are no trees in the library and the precious moments it will take you to look around and realize this will allow the librarian to strike. Don't become a statistic.
Joseph Fink
#12. She fought back the tears in her eyes, because though she no longer felt she was one of the Clayr, she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well.
Garth Nix
#13. Humph. Looking around for the sword, are you? Well, it's a better idea than thrashing around at random.'
'The Prince,' said Master Horace repressively, 'will inform us of his intentions when he wishes to do so. We are here to serve, not to quest
'
'Yes, it's the sword,' Edoran told her.
Hilari Bell
#14. The first purpose of a librarian is to preserve and defend our books. Sometimes, that means dying for them - or making someone else die for them. Tota est scientia.
Rachel Caine
#15. In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.
Karen Joy Fowler
#16. Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.
Margaret Mahy
#17. I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.
Laura Bush
#18. I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.
Eugene H. Peterson
#19. First, her father had a minor stroke, giving Claire a glimpse of his mortality and, by extension, her own. And then she had a vision of herself thirty years in the future: a spinster librarian in an apartment full of cats named after New Wave directors. (Godard, leave Rivette's chew toy alone - )
Jess Walter
#20. Ah. Morrigan, a voice said behind me. I jumped and spun around. Jesus. She must have been wearing super-quiet librarian shoes.
Eileen Cook
#21. Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
Neil Gaiman
#22. For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.
Avi
#23. Ingrid dresses more like a librarian than any librarian in the history of libraries.
Melissa De La Cruz
#24. I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.
Michael Scott
#25. A warning: If you rip, tear, shred, bend, fold, deface, disfigure, smear, smudge, throw, drop, or in any other manner damage, mistreat, or show lack of respect towards this book, the consequences will be as awful as it is within my power to make them. - Irma Pince, Hogwarts Librarian
Rowling J K
#26. Librarians were somewhat on a par with God-who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many different types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.
Jodi Picoult
#27. 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.
Terry Pratchett
#28. Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.
Anthony Horowitz
#29. Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.
Mark Steel
#30. I never heard of a pretty librarian in my life, Paula declared.
Pamela Morsi
#31. The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.
America Ferrera
#32. Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
Richard Powers
#33. A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
Justin Winsor
#34. In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has a 19th century Englishman asking a librarian for a copy of the French constitution, only to be told: 'I am sorry Sir, we do not stock periodicals.'
Margaret Thatcher
#35. If Donald Trump and the Wicked Witch of the West had a kid, it would be Jayne-Anne. She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes but underneath the Verace, she's Godzilla with tits.
Richard Kadrey
#36. Got it," I say as he hands me a pencil skirt, a crisp long-sleeved white shirt, and some low black heels. "This is what I'm wearing?" I'm a librarian. "Can I safely assume the accessories will include glasses on a chain and my hair in a bun? Should I shush people tonight?
J.A. Huss
#37. She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be
she was a librarian, after all.
Sarah Beth Durst
#38. The closest thing we have to a "crap detector" is a qualified librarian.
Jim Trelease
#40. If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.
Dorothy Gambrell
#41. The day the library was shut down, he thought, some maiden librarian had moved down the room, pushing each chair against its table. Carefully, with a plodding precision that was the cachet of herself.
Richard Matheson
#42. Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?
Neil Gaiman
#43. Our librarian, Ms. Corbeil, is one of a kind. She welcomes all Social Outcasts and talks to us like we're adults and worthy of her attention, something many of us don't get very often.
Maya Van Wagenen
#44. Ow! Dammit!"
"Watch your language. This is a holy place."
"Hah!" I grumbled. "If it's so holy, why don't they have a holy elevator? Or a holy librarian who can go fetch the blasted book for us?
Cecily White
#45. A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country unless she or he is a lawyer who is in the position to determine what he or she is looking at is indeed child pornography.
Judith Krug
#46. A librarian remembers the particular scent of glue and dust, and if we're so lucky - and I was - the smell of parchment, a quiet tanginess, softer than wood pulp or cotton rag. We would bury ourselves in books until flesh and paper became one and ink and blood at last ran together.
Erika Swyler
#47. Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.
Rebecca Makkai
#48. History shows that erections happen at the worst possible times, and they stick around until someone else notices them. Often, it is either a librarian or an English teacher, like Mrs. Edith Mitchell.
Andrew Smith
#49. I trained as a librarian, and I run a bookstore. Fucking right I can use a gun ... if I have to engage somebody between the counter and the door, only the political autobiographies are in danger and who gives a fuck about those?
Jonathan L. Howard
#50. In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.
Theresa Breslin
#51. Google can bring you 100,000 answers but a librarian can bring you the right one.
~An Elegy for the Library
by Mahesh Rao
Mahesh Rao
#52. Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.
Eleanor Brown
#53. I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.
Lady Gaga
#54. Just because I'm a librarian doesn't mean I'm at all tame.
James Turner
#55. She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes, but underneath the Versace, she's Godzilla with tits.
Richard Kadrey
#56. Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores, they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks ... all lovely and loose and jingly.
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
#57. He would think God was a dyke librarian, and he would know the fear of her.
Joe Hill
#58. I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.
Juicy J
#59. No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss-ssso much compressed wisdom.
Joe Hill
#60. Your work has been described as touching the soul of the reader. That's the way I felt. Feel. Honestly. You've touched my soul. I'm sorry if I sound like a middle-aged librarian at a book-autographing session.
W.P. Kinsella
#62. My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.
Patricia Briggs
#63. I am not the kind of girl who trusts a man to tell her everything she needs to know in his own due time, so I did some research on my sire. You can take the girl out of the library, but you can't take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.
Molly Harper
#64. Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.
Elizabeth McCracken
#65. To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women.
Melvil Dewey
#66. I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like veal.
Joshilyn Jackson
#67. The time is when a library is a school, and the librarian is the highest sense a teacher. - Melvil Dewey, 1876
John Palfrey
#68. The bottom line is: if you were a jerk in your original life, you're probably going to be a bigger undead jerk, If you were a decent person, say a juvenile-services librarian with a secret collection of unicorn figurines, you're probably going to be a kinder, gentler vampire.
Molly Harper
#69. I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.
Frank Delaney
#70. Pious Jews saw heaven as a vast library, with the Archangel Metatron as the librarian: the books in the shelves there pressed themselves together to make room for a newcomer.
Paul Johnson
#71. I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I'm a librarian.
Lady Gaga
#72. I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing
working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!
Peter Cameron
#73. In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some classes to get up to speed with 21st-century librarianship.
Elizabeth McCracken
#74. In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.
Alberto Manguel
#75. Lirael left in a daze of happiness. She had survived the ordeal. She had been accepted. She was going to be a librarian!
Garth Nix
#76. The Alexandrian man, who is basically a librarian and copy editor and goes miserably blind from the dust of books and printing errors.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#77. Even ymbrynes can't touch them. In the stories, only special adepts called librarians can see and handle them - and a librarian hasn't been born for a thousand years. If the library exists, all Jack would find there are empty shelves.
Ransom Riggs
#78. The librarian had imagined he could summon a given book to perch on his hand just by shouting out its call number, but in actuality they were just too willful, and some were actively predatory. The
Lev Grossman
#79. At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.
Juliana Hatfield
#80. No one ever spoke above a whisper in the staff lounge, but I felt the need to shush her anyway. I gave her my best librarian frown and put one finger to my lips. It works every time. We librarians are like practitioners of Jedi mind-control when it comes to shushing.
Nick Pageant
#81. To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.
R. David Lankes
#82. A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco
#83. As she starts to speak, my mind is suddenly filled with every hot-teacher fantasy I've ever had. They're playing out in my mind right next to the ones about the seemingly sexually repressed librarian who's really a leather-wearing, handcuff-bearing nymphomaniac.
Emma Chase
#85. With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaqua's hands. "One of my favorites.
C.J. Milbrandt
#87. If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
Beverly Cleary
#88. Albion Park on a fierce spring morning. A mad March day of ice and fire. Thomas's feet beat a tattoo on the path. Every hair, every bristle on his chin stands on end. He is a small star-ship of blazing neurons- He is a librarian on his way to work, half-blind with sun and cold and memory.
Maggie Gee
#89. A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn't children's literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world.
Jefferson Mays
#91. It came to me then that we're each something of a constant gardener of a million forgotten galaxies, a librarian of lost places and times, a curator of a museum of random details that really only matter to each of us.
Jonathan Riggs
#92. You're a sex symbol," she began.
"Thanks for noticing.
Karina Bliss
#93. Thieves and prostitutes. Our mothers were in that car, along with a teacher, a librarian, elderly people, and a newborn baby - thieves and prostitutes.
Ruta Sepetys
#94. This should be a librarian's job, of course, but you can't trust people who read that much.
Anthony Marra
#95. There may be trouble. Anybody goes in there needs to know how to handle a gun. Do you?"
Lovecraft angled her head back until she was looking at Harrelson down her nose. "I trained as a librarian, and I run a bookstore. Fucking right I can use a gun." pg. 221.
Jonathan L. Howard
#96. Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.
Ken Jennings
#97. My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian
the man in charge of the University's entire collection
is a figurehead, well-to-do and poorly read, with whom I have only perfunctory contact.
Martha Cooley
#98. This is why it's perilous to ignore a librarian.
Jeffe Kennedy
#99. she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well. "We
Garth Nix
#100. Evelyn: Look, I ... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I ... am a librarian.
The Mummy (1999)
Max Allan Collins
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