“Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.” — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books. — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs. — Nancy Pearl Copy Share Image
“Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited.” — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.” — Leona Rostenberg Copy Share Image
“If there is a bibliographic equivalent of alcoholism, many librarians have it.” — G. Edward Evans Copy Share Image
“As a librarian for 18 years at the Merck branch of the Trenton Public Library, I was sorely tested by the slow-witted… — joyce carol oates 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
“As a general rule, librarians are a kick in the pants socially, often full of good humor, progressive, and, naturally, well read” — Bill Hall Copy Share Image
They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“If they've managed to bring more firepower than us, we deserve to lose. But we aren't going to lose, because we're the… — Bill Willingham Copy Share Image
“At least once a week, Dinsy was amused by the indignant sputtering of someone who had just spooned dill weed, not sugar,… — Ellen Klages Copy Share Image
The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“He would not object, he said, to accepting a post as a librarian. But as Cecilia was unable to imagine that her… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
'The Librarians' is a show that really needs to have ten days, but we shoot it in seven, so the workload is… — Noah Wyle Copy Share Image
Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Childrens librarians are… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Now you may have gotten the impression that there are absolutely no uses for Librarians. I'm sorry if I implied that. Librarians… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“There is a somewhat time-worn joke about people taking up library work because they like to read : the joke consisting of… — Mary Virginia Provines Copy Share Image
“I also work here because I love books, because I'm inveterately curious, and because, like most librarians, I'm not well suited to… — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
“Pimps make the best librarians. Psycho killers, the worst. Ditto con men. Gangsters, gunrunners, bank robbers- adept at crowd control, at collaborating… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian -- the man… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“Lisa folds her hands. “The world tests us for reasons, Miss Bishop,” she says sweetly. “Don’t you want to be Crew?” I… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“Librarians are serious people, seldom given to jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
“Books and stories are lifelines, and libraries house those lifelines, making them available to all. They are important not just for the… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Libraries promote the sharing of knowledge, connecting people of all ages with valuable information resources. These dynamic and modern institutions, and the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Librarians, too, are gatekeepers -- not of actual experience, of course, but of its written accounts. My job is to safeguard those… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
“To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the past and improve on the ideas and techniques… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the… — Lavie Tidhar 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
“That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts… — Patry Francis Copy Share Image
“To Homer, libraries were holy places like churches, and the priestly librarians a blessed race, a saving remnant in a world of… — Jane Langton Copy Share Image
“We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded.” — Herbert S. White Copy Share Image
“Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.” — Willard Scott Copy Share Image
