I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media?… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“Well, it would be helpful to not have to go through all of these in Braille," the man said. "I'm looking for… — Aubrey Rose Copy Share Image
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since… — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers. — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“...one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don't ever p**s one off.” — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
“A librarian can’t live by books alone, and I wouldn’t eat them if I could. Feel too much like cannibalism.” — Mike Mullin Copy Share Image
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few… — David Davis Copy Share Image
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This… — Brandon Sanderson 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
My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
“I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy, Mr. Roper, it… — Sarah Smith Copy Share Image
“Peter stood back up. 'Well, that was a perfectly useless conversation,' he said with a sigh. Now, there is a wonderful thing… — Jonathan Auxier Copy Share Image
Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are… — John Green Copy Share Image
“It is odd, isn’t it? Whenever I read something interesting, I tear out a piece and keep it as a talisman until… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
I know of a wild region whose librarians repudiate the vain superstitious custom of seeking any sense in books and compare it… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated. — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education. — Patricia A. Woertz Copy Share Image
Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
