Librarian Quotes · Page 8

If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

— Warren Buffett

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

— Germaine Greer

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

— Juliana Hatfield

“I’m a librarian, not a leader.” “You’re both! Librarians and archeologists have always been the ones to bring civilization back.”

— Vernor Vinge

Jeremy Corbyn confuses the public because he looks like a librarian and enjoys baking bread.

— Katherine Ryan

“The Librarian liked being best man. You were allowed to kiss bridesmaids, and they weren't allowed to run away.”

— Terry Pratchett

He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.

— Joss Whedon

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

— Anonymous

Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the…

— Daniel Levitin

Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. ... To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of…

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the…

— Michael Moore

I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a…

— Paula Poundstone

Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I…

— Max Allan Collins

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me…

— Asa Larsson

Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders…

— Louise Penny

If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this.…

— Irving Stone

“I claim that this bookless library is a dream, a hallucination of on-line addicts; network neophytes, and library-automation insiders...Instead, I suspect computers…

— Clifford Stoll

The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings…

— Libba Bray

“...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now I am librarian…

— George MacDonald

“She, of all people, knew the sacred trust that word -- "librarian" -- implied. Because a librarian was supposed to to be…

— Beth Fantaskey

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

“The librarian, whom I had never seen before, presided over the library like a watchdog, one of those poor dogs who are…

— Primo Levi

The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the…

— Carl Sagan

So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but…

— Brandon Sanderson

the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

— Ellen Hopkins

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

— Maya Angelou

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

“Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased.”

— Vernor Vinge

“She was the type of librarian who has “Reading is supposed to be educational, not fun” tattooed somewhere.”

— Molly Harper

I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.

— Hisham Matar

“Why a librarian?” he asked. “Princesses weren’t in high demand, so I opted for the next best thing.”

— Sidney Bristol

“I'm Margarita Staples." She bowed in her harness. "Extreme librarian. Bookaneer.”

— China Miéville

“She was the sexy librarian unpinning her hair and taking off her glasses for him.”

— Lauren Blakely

Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

— Kate Klise

I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian.

— Lady Gaga

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different…

— Lady Gaga

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

— Alan Dershowitz

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

— Molly Harper

“He would think God was a dyke librarian, and he would know the fear of her.”

— Joe Hill