Great Librarian Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Poems are endlessly renewable resources. Whatever you bring to them, at whatever stage of life, gets mirrored back, refracted, reread in new ways.

Jonathan Galassi

#3. Since the election of Shinzo Abe as the new Japanese prime minister, by reputation a fervent nationalist, relations between Japan and China have paradoxically improved a little.

Martin Jacques

#4. She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.

David Lubar

#5. Were she lying crushed under the ruins of a building, were she torn by the bomb of an air raid, so long as she was still in existence she would know that action is man's foremost obligation, regardless of anything he feels ...

Ayn Rand

#6. Adventure is really always just subjecting yourself to something unfamiliar

Jenny Erpenbeck

#7. The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit ... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.

Kristan Higgins

#8. Jealousy always gets the best of me.

Eric Halvorsen

#9. I say, there's nothing wrong with a bit of moodling - you come up with the most interesting ideas that way" -Dill

Paige Britt

#10. Oh my God ... YOU are real.
Oh my God ... You ARE real.
OH MY GOD ... You are REAL!
Oh my God ... You're really real!

Pattie Mallette

#11. Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.

Garth Nix

#12. I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

Asa Larsson

#13. What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?

William Shakespeare

#14. There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

John Irving

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

Warren Buffett

#16. The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.

Henry Flynt

#17. Once you've been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn't want you back.

David Mitchell

#18. I'm for anything that teaches consideration and kindness. If one can teach one's son to dance with the ugliest little girl in the room, that's the best lesson they can ever learn.

Letitia Baldrige

#19. If the earth needs night as well as day, wouldn't it follow that the soul requires endarkenment to balance enlightenment?

Tom Robbins

#20. 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

#21. When I was younger, I felt very much like, 'Oh, I have to be a certain way, I have to look a certain way.' You really, really don't. That's the way women are treated differently than men. I mean, I've had actors argue with me about this.

Anne Hathaway