Top 100 Quotes About Librarians
#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. 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.
Gloria Steinem
#3. Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.
Tessa Dare
#5. It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.
Nancy Pickard
#6. All Librarians are members of the Catalogue. That's what you call a coven when it's made up of Librarians instead of witches. Librarians have sorted and alphabetized all the magic that ever thought to put a rabbit and a hat together. Who do you think invented Special Collections?
Catherynne M Valente
#7. He wore binoculars around his neck the way librarians wear their glasses.
Jane Hamilton
#8. Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at our library here, 'cause the powers that be cut our staffing this year.
David Davis
#9. Since at least the Sixth Century all librarians have received extensive combat training and are lethal with even the common toothpick.
James Turner
#10. Librarians and other information specialists have developed user's guides to evaluating websites. These include questions we should ask, such as "Is the page current?" or "What is the domain?" (A guide prepared by NASA is particularly helpful.)
Daniel J. Levitin
#11. Finally, eternal gratitude to all the (100 percent non-evil) librarians and other library staffers I have known and worked with and been helped and inspired by over the years. I don't know where I would be without you!
Michelle Knudsen
#12. Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon
You deserve to be taken out of circulation!
Karl Kesel
#13. Lance could be trusted with your life. Librarians are like that.
Victoria Abbott
#14. 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
#15. Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition ...
Alan Moore
#16. None of the books were in alphabetical order, which made it necessary to cock my head sideways to read each one of the spines. By the end of the third shelf I began to realize why librarians were sometimes able to achieve such pinnacle levels of crankiness: It's because they're in agony.
Alan Bradley
#17. The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.
Haruki Murakami
#18. I wished I could take her to the library and hand her over to the librarians. Please teach her about everything, I'd say.
A.S. King
#19. 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
#20. Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.
Margaret Mahy
#21. All the librarians of my childhood. Who saw that a boy was afraid of heights and lent him wings.
Fredrik Backman
#22. Now, there is a wonderful thing in this world called "foresight". It is a gift treasured above all others because it allows one to know what the future holds. Most people with foresight end up wielding immense power in life, often becoming great rulers or librarians.
Jonathan Auxier
#23. Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.
Neil Gaiman
#24. You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.
Graham Chapman
#25. A storm of yellow notepads, broken pencils, papers, and books littered the tables and floor of the room, along with a collection of empty beer cans. It looked as if a party of wild librarians had just cleared out.
Erika Robuck
#26. Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the librarians who staff them, add immeasurably to our quality of life.
George W. Bush
#27. Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.
Patricia Schroeder
#28. Facts and information are the nourishment, the lifeblood, the raison d'etre, and also the bane and despair of librarians and researchers.
Kee Malesky
#29. 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
#30. The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.
Shannon L. Alder
#31. I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.
Heraclitus
#32. Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.
Richard Powers
#33. Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.
Daniel Levitin
#36. It's night in the Free People's World Tree Library. All the librarians are asleep, ... between the pages of their enchanted novels.
Kelly Link
#37. The closest thing we have to a "crap detector" is a qualified librarian.
Jim Trelease
#38. Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.
Lady Gaga
#39. Information is valuable. Librarians and libraries are, at best incidental; at worst, in the way.
Donald A. Barclay
#40. They were like really loud librarians. And as the audience, you better shut the hell up because you're in the library of rock right now. When
Carrie Brownstein
#41. But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.
Louise Penny
#42. Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.
Rebecca Makkai
#43. Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just
as math is the key
and we will survive or founder, depending on how
well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to
me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.
Robert A. Heinlein
#44. Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea.
Eleanor Brown
#45. Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.
E. Millicent Sowerby
#46. The search for truth takes us to dangerous places," said Old Woman Josie. "Often it takes us to that most dangerous place: the library. You know who said that? No? George Washington did. Minutes before librarians ate him.
Joseph Fink
#47. The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
Bruce Coville
#48. 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?
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#49. I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they've made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.
Gary Shteyngart
#50. Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise.
Rett MacPherson
#51. Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!
Charles Ogden
#52. 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.
Christopher Morley
#53. Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.
Guy Browning
#54. Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of old book dust.
Rebecca Makkai
#55. 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
#56. I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.
Nancy Pearl
#57. But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.
Richard Peck
#58. The librarians know the secrets, not the historians
Dee Brown
#59. School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works.
Chris Riddell
#60. At least once a week, Dinsy was amused by the indignant sputtering of someone who had just spooned dill weed, not sugar, into a cup of Earl Grey tea.
Ellen Klages
#61. Librarians are the bedrock of the public domain and the defenders of our fundamental right to access knowledge.
Carl Malamud
#62. 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
#63. There is a somewhat time-worn joke about people taking up library work because they like to read : the joke consisting of the fact that librarians have so little time to read. But, I tell you, those who do not, and there are some, are in the wrong profession.
Mary Virginia Provines
#64. And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#65. He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.
Laini Taylor
#66. Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.
Neil Gaiman
#67. 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
#68. Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.
Kate Klise
#69. Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.
Neil Gaiman
#70. If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.
Warren Buffett
#71. If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.
Warren Buffett
#72. They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy
for their patrons and themselves.
Marilyn Johnson
#73. That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts and book recommendations, joined them for dinner.
Patry Francis
#74. Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.
Michael Moore
#75. Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.
Brandon Sanderson
#76. Librarians are amazing like that. They will hand you a book they know will make your eyes bug out because they know that is the point of novels, not to satisfy but to surprise.
Max Barry
#77. I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults - librarians, friends' parents - suggest to me that I liked books "with magic" because I wanted to escape from a reality that, by implication, I lacked the gumption to face.
Laura Miller
#78. If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett
#79. 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
#80. We don't have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.
Scott Douglas
#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. The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.
Scott Douglas
#83. I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world's gonna be AOK.
Danah Boyd
#84. All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.
Catherynne M Valente
#85. Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably underestimated and largely underemployed.
Charles Medawar
#86. We're librarians, sir. And we will not let you check out this future librarian unless your prove to us that you'll take good care of him when he's in your home.
David Levithan
#87. I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.
Neil Gaiman
#88. In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.
David Gerrold
#89. Today Mrs. Beasley began by clearing her throat. Again, this isn't a worrisome sign. Librarians are not overly talkative so our throats can get froggy from lack of use.
Lynn Austin
#92. Which was complimentary but unhelpful, because the librarians were tough.
Robertson Davies
#93. Books: the one thing the librarians cared about more than the rules.
Claire Fayers
#94. If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.
Beverly Cleary
#95. I returned from Boston and rallied my fellow librarians to defend the town," Quinn replied, as if the answer should have been obvious. He offered me a small bow from his seat. "The librarians are at your disposal, Widdershins. We will fight to the last man.
Jordan L. Hawk
#96. When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.
Karen Joy Fowler
#97. I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.
Paula Poundstone
#98. Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris.
"Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow.
Rick Riordan
#99. One of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.
Dean Koontz
#100. My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.
Nick Offerman
