“So you're a librarian." His eyes shifted back and forth. "I prefer loremaster.” — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
“I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.” — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.” — E. Millicent Sowerby Copy Share Image
'The Librarians' fills a vacuum, providing true family programming for TNT. — Noah Wyle Copy Share Image
“I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off. — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“Lisa folds her hands. “The world tests us for reasons, Miss Bishop,” she says sweetly. “Don’t you want to be Crew?” I… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian -- the man… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“Librarians are serious people, seldom given to jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
“If they've managed to bring more firepower than us, we deserve to lose. But we aren't going to lose, because we're the… — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
“At least once a week, Dinsy was amused by the indignant sputtering of someone who had just spooned dill weed, not sugar,… — Ellen Klages Copy Share Image
The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
“You don't sound like a librarian," she said. "I'm on vacation," Jacqueline laughed. "Well, I supposed there is an image, isn't there?… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“He would not object, he said, to accepting a post as a librarian. But as Cecilia was unable to imagine that her… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“Now here's the heavy irony. So I went back to New York to become a librarian. To actually seek out this thing… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
“Burnout for librarians seems to me both foolish and unnecessary. . . . Work hard, work well, work effectively. Work until quitting… — Herbert S. White Copy Share Image
“Now you may have gotten the impression that there are absolutely no uses for Librarians. I'm sorry if I implied that. Librarians… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“There is a somewhat time-worn joke about people taking up library work because they like to read : the joke consisting of… — Mary Virginia Provines Copy Share Image
“I also work here because I love books, because I'm inveterately curious, and because, like most librarians, I'm not well suited to… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
“I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“The other option was to go to the public library. Few people came back from a visit to the library. There was… — Joseph Fink Copy Share Image
“Librarians wield unfathomable power. With a flip of the wrist they can hide your dissertation behind piles of old Field and Stream… — Erica Olsen Copy Share Image
“An even more pointed example of the the power of the silence tabu in libraries occurred in Duluth in 1981. The police… — Ray B. Browne Copy Share Image
“Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that… — Robert Dawson Copy Share Image
In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of their ideals,… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“I believed that books might save him because I knew they had so far, and because I knew the people books had… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
