Librarian Quotes · Page 7

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

— Ken Jennings

Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

— Kate DiCamillo

“She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes, but underneath the Versace, she's Godzilla with tits.”

— Richard Kadrey

A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

— Vicki Myron

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

— Barbara Mertz

Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.

— Gary D. Schmidt

“We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded.”

— Herbert S. White

“Don’t think of me as a librarian. Think of me as a mad scientist; this is my secret laboratory.”

— Kami Garcia

It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the…

— Neil Gaiman

Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.

— Gail Carriger

My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could…

— Kirk Douglas

“To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical…

— R. David Lankes

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than…

— Terry Pratchett

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

I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, "This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to…

— Kate DiCamillo

It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart…

— Sarah Dessen

Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't…

— Joanna Russ

“I'm a librarian in town,' she began. 'You sure about that?' The words popped out before he could stop them. Annabelle raised…

— Susan Mallery

I mean, I've never been thinking that if you're a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean,…

— Bjork

Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet…

— Patricia Schroeder

I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars… And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun…

— Carl Sagan

“Beth had been a middle school science teacher and Joni was a librarian and they both had collections of weird stuff they…

— Dan Chaon

“The other option was to go to the public library. Few people came back from a visit to the library. There was…

— Joseph Fink

“Now here's the heavy irony. So I went back to New York to become a librarian. To actually seek out this thing…

— Elaine Dundy

“The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.”

— Seth Godin

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source…

— Theresa Breslin

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

— Lorraine Toussaint

“Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.”

— Willard Scott

Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and…

— Peter Drucker

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how…

— Jodi Picoult

Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.

— Mac Barnett

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

— Frank Delaney

Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

— Spider Robinson

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

— danah boyd

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

— Pseudonymous Bosch

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

— Richard Scarry

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

— Anthony Horowitz

“Does this dress make me fat?” “Of course it does. Don’t you own a mirror?”

— Deborah Blake

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in…

— Ray Bradbury