Civil servants Quotes by Marilyn Johnson

“Maybe it begins the day you pledge allegiance, face the flag and suddenly clutch your left clavicle because you find a tender puff of…

— Marilyn Johnson

“I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly as one…

— Marilyn Johnson

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

— Marilyn Johnson

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

— Marilyn Johnson

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

— Marilyn Johnson

We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we…

— Marilyn Johnson

“Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic…

— Marilyn Johnson

“Bibliomancy: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.”

— Marilyn Johnson

I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be…

— Marilyn Johnson

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're…

— Marilyn Johnson

“It’s almost impossible to teach that sort of writing except by pointing students to a stack of clips and telling them, 'Inhale these.”

— Marilyn Johnson

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

— Marilyn Johnson

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

Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization…

— Marilyn Johnson

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

— Marilyn Johnson