Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and… — Guy Browning Copy Share Image
“We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don't need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are too… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Don't stop now. Go ahead! Be readers all of your lives. And don't forget, librarians and teachers can help you find the… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“People are often dismissive of librarians and libraries…But isn't that where the best stories are kept? Hidden away on the library bookshelves,… — Justine Picardie Copy Share Image
Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“Here, you carry these. I may need my hands free. Why the hell are we taking ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber?’… — Genevieve Cogman Copy Share Image
Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries... What started… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“You don’t look like the librarians I remember,” he told her. “We’ve changed. There was a whole press release issued about it,… — Susan Mallery Copy Share Image
Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Members of the Order take vows of literacy, obstinancy and bibliomancy. Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am… — The Mummy Copy Share Image
Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the… — James H. Billington Copy Share Image
[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they… — Will Manley Copy Share Image
“Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.” — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
“Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at… — David Davis Copy Share Image
“A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably underestimated and largely underemployed.” — Charles Medawar Copy Share Image
“When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last for only as long as… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
“We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded.” — Herbert S. White Copy Share Image
“To Homer, libraries were holy places like churches, and the priestly librarians a blessed race, a saving remnant in a world of… — Jane Langton Copy Share Image
“That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts… — Patry Francis Copy Share Image
“I’m a librarian, not a leader.” “You’re both! Librarians and archeologists have always been the ones to bring civilization back.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth.… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school,… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image