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
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
The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I… — Isaac Asimov 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
I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Librarians were somewhat on a par with God-who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many… — Jodi Picoult 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
“She, of all people, knew the sacred trust that word -- "librarian" -- implied. Because a librarian was supposed to to be… — Beth Fantaskey Copy Share Image
“The librarian, whom I had never seen before, presided over the library like a watchdog, one of those poor dogs who are… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but… — Brandon Sanderson 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
You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense?… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Because of our library system anyone in America can educate themselves in any field they desire. If they are confused, librarians (that… — Nevada Barr Copy Share Image
“MAN No doubt about that—I can’t even call ’em “girls” without getting hit by a lawsuit, so … (Grins.) You’re a librarian?… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
“Her expression shut faster than a poked clam. 'I'll just get a cardigan.' He might not be a hellraiser anymore but Devin… — Karina Bliss Copy Share Image
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“She loved the library and was anxious to worship the lady in charge. But the librarian had other things on her mind.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in… — Louis Stanley Copy Share Image
When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is… — Eugene H. Peterson 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
I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Material that might be illegal is such a minuscule part of what is available that we have to remember and I mean… — Judith Krug Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. — Thomas Jefferson 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
Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
