Librarians Quote by Avi Steinberg Download Open image ““Pimps make the best librarians.”” — Avi Steinberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Librarians Pimps
“Pimps make the best librarians. Psycho killers, the worst. Ditto con men. Gangsters, gunrunners, bank robbers- adept at crowd control, at collaborating with a… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“Pimps make the best librarians. Psycho killers, the worst. Ditto conmen. Gangsters, gun runners, bank robbers – adept at crowd control, at collaborating with… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise.” — Rett MacPherson Copy Share Image
“I’m a librarian, not a leader.” “You’re both! Librarians and archeologists have always been the ones to bring civilization back.” — Vernor Vinge 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
“Fuck it, I thought. As Don Rumsfeld once said, "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“For days I kept imagining the fate of the world's misplaced letters. I started noticing them everywhere. All the right letters sitting on desks… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said. He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“I flipped to the author’s photo in the Library of America edition of O’Connor’s collected works, and forked it over. Solitary examined the photo.… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“An officer on an elevator in the Tower once told me he was proud of his job keeping bad guys out of society. "Someone's… — Avi Steinberg 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 with a… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They're pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books.… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“Harvard was a lovely assisted-living facility from which I'd emerged, like my classmates, stupider and more confident.” — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“His elegant librarianship ... made me appreciate how order is created: Not through grand schemes - to which I was often drawn - but… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“I regretted my human form briefly; it would be so much easier to drag and rope information into the brain as neatly as one… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wants to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that was changed… — Scott Douglas Copy Share Image
“Librarians wield unfathomable power. With a flip of the wrist they can hide your dissertation behind piles of old Field and Stream magazines. They… — Erica Olsen Copy Share Image
“Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature.” — Mary Virginia Provines Copy Share Image
“As if on cue, a line of silhouettes emerged from behind a desert scrub—shapes that moved like cats. They wandered through the landscape of… — Rahma Krambo Copy Share Image
“Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
“Someone has said of books that they are our 'amplest heritages' of thought, and so they are. That doesn't necessarily mean that they must… — Mary Virginia Provines Copy Share Image
“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said. He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are… — Avi Steinberg Copy Share Image
“Librarians are trained to be polite, patient, and helpful, no matter who stands across the reference desk.The most important thing is that we look… — Robert Dawson 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
“...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. If for a hundred and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.” — E. Millicent Sowerby Copy Share Image
