Top 30 Quotes About Archivist
#1. It's really fine that you found a good archivist to do the basically difficult and at times harrowing work of cleaning out old papers. I hope you keep her digging into all the old boxes as long as there is ONE left.
Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher
#2. Well, you seem to have embraced Union propaganda wholeheartedly, Sonmi-451.
And I might observe that you have embraced corpocracy propaganda wholeheartedly, Archivist.
David Mitchell
#3. Surely a program of incremental reforms, of cautious steps, is the wisest way to proceed? You show xtraordinary erudition for an eighth-stratum, Archivist. I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: "An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps." We
David Mitchell
#4. Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory.
Allen Weinstein
#5. I am an archivist. I am a librarian. I collect words because words are the truest and longest-lasting craft in the world.
Seanan McGuire
#6. Thus, the Archivist must display at all times scrupulous independence and a devotion to the laws and principles which govern the responsibilities of the office.
Allen Weinstein
#7. If you only believe what you like, and reject what you don't like, it is not truth you believe, but yourself. - Possidius Adeodat, Archivist of Kenatos
Jeff Wheeler
#8. For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the evolving historic saga of the American people.
Allen Weinstein
#10. Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
Mary Schmich
#11. All rising suns set, Archivist. [...] All revolutions are [fantacy, lunacy], until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities. [...] I was not genomed to alter history, [...] no revolutionary ever was.
David Mitchell
#12. I have no earliest memories, Archivist. Every day of my life in Papa Song was as uniform as the fries we vended.
David Mitchell
#13. Archiving is extremely expensive and time consuming. I'm sure an archivist would tell me I'm doing it wrong. It's an industry that's built upon essential ideas, and some of those practices are abusive.
Ian MacKaye
#14. One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he was safe, and revealing this would not jeopardize him. But nevertheless, the FBI started a leak investigation.
Ronald Kessler
#15. The Archivist of the United States essentially works for the American people across partisan lines and not, regardless of which Administration nominates the person, for a particular President or political party.
Allen Weinstein
#16. Would I be an Archivist then?" I asked. "No," she said. "You'd be a trader." For a moment, I thought she said traitor, which of course I was, to the Society.
Ally Condie
#17. Archivist: And what if no one believes this truth?
Sonmi~451: Someone already does.
David Mitchell
#18. I love photography and first editions. I have that in my genes. My father was an archivist.
Winona Ryder
#19. The President seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says is executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock.
Sam Ervin
#20. So where does one go in such a wobbly, elusive, dynamic, confusing age? Wherever the librarians and archivists are.
They're sorting it all out for us.
Marilyn Johnson
#21. I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.
Stieg Larsson
#22. The heart is a demanding tenant; it frequently makes a strong argument against common sense.
Julie Kibler
#23. Bein' born is craps. How we live is poker. Mamma played a bad hand well.
Mary Doria Russell
#24. Human life depends not only on income but also on social opportunities, [for example] what the state does for educating.
Amartya Sen
#25. He loved us to the uttermost. And let us be so moved by this love that it becomes our own.
John Piper
#26. The art of British Columbia's native Indians played a big role in inspiring my creativity ... the simplicity of the images, the graciousness of the lines and curves, and the emotional impact of the bright simple primary colours.
Joe Average
#27. Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.
Colum McCann
#28. I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.
George W. S. Trow
#29. When you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when you want to get that publication in The New York Times or wherever? It encourages people to play right into it.
Carl Hart
#30. I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.
Garth Brooks
