Librarians Quotes · Page 4

“This is why I like real librarians. They're search engines with a heart" -Miguel”

— Chris Grabenstein

“If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.”

— Warren Buffett

“We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.”

— Scott Douglas

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

— Ann Richards

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

— Nancy Pearl

“Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.”

— Margaret Mahy

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

— Neil Gaiman

“If there is a bibliographic equivalent of alcoholism, many librarians have it.”

— G. Edward Evans

“As a general rule, librarians are a kick in the pants socially, often full of good humor, progressive, and, naturally, well read”

— Bill Hall

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know…

— Patrick Ness

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

“As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted…

— joyce carol oates

You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason…

— Anonymous

“And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read…

— Marilyn Johnson

“I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the…

— John Robert Lewis

“Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a…

— Max Barry

“Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the…

— Jodi Picoult

“No duelling. No summoning of imps or other manifestations of elements potentially damaging to the records, including but not limited to: elementals,…

— Justina Robson

“Many of my friends think I read books all day and alphabetize the shelves. Well, sometimes I do alphabetize shelves. But more…

— Jack Canfield Carrie O'Maley

For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information…

— Clifford Stoll

“A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch," Carrot drew himself up proudly, "because someone's taken…

— Terry Pratchett

“A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there’s this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to…

— Scott Douglas

“It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more…

— Scott Douglas

“Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.”

— Rebecca Makkai

“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.”

— Leona Rostenberg

Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.

— Karin Slaughter

If knowing history made you rich, librarians would be billionaires.

— Warren Buffett

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

— Ray Bradbury

“Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased.”

— Vernor Vinge

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

— Maya Angelou

“I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. "Extreme librarian. Bookaneer.”

— China Miéville

Librarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.

— Tom Upton

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

— Heraclitus

I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.

— danah boyd

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

— Richard Scarry

“I slammed the book shut and and crowed, 'And that is why you don't kick the librarian off the investigation!”

— Jim C. Hines

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

— Warren Buffett

I'm starting to understand why librarians end up single and living alone with a cat. Cause people suck a big one.

— Anonymous

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

— Barbara Mertz