Humor Quote by Marilyn Johnson Download Open image ““Bibliomancy: "Divination by jolly well Looking It Up.”” — Marilyn Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Humor
“Members of the Order take vows of literacy, obstinancy and bibliomancy. Bibliomancy? It's defined for us a little further down: "Divination by jolly well… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“Libraries, whether my own or shared with a greater reading public, have always seemed to me pleasantly mad places, and for as long as… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world." "And yet with a bigger… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book. — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“I know of an uncouth region whose librarians repudiate the vain and superstitious custom of finding a meaning in books and equate it with… — José Borges Copy Share Image
“We lusty bibliophiles know that reading, unlike just about anything else, is both good for you and loads of fun.” — Kevin Smokler Copy Share Image
“Fueled by the need to interpret the past, to explore the present, and to imagine the future, each generation shapes the world of books.” — Pawan Mishra Copy Share Image
“The bibliographer in the digital age returns to the revelatory practice of her medieval forebears. Librarians, like those scribes of the Middle Ages, do… — Matthew Battles Copy Share Image
“Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.” — Richard Denney Copy Share Image
“Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in… — Jonathan D. Spence Copy Share Image
“Maybe it begins the day you pledge allegiance, face the flag and suddenly clutch your left clavicle because you find a tender puff of… — Marilyn Johnson 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
The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories. — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy. — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them. — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“Yes, librarians use punctuation marks to make little emoticons, smiley and frowny faces in their correspondence, but if there were one for an ironic… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
“It’s almost impossible to teach that sort of writing except by pointing students to a stack of clips and telling them, 'Inhale these.” — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn… — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves. — Marilyn Johnson Copy Share Image
'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy. — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
In my opinion, sexiness comes down to three things: chemistry, sense of humor, and treatment of waitstaff at restaurants. — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
“...I haven't guessed where your shirt is from yet Bane, but I don't think it'll matter once it's underwater!' Tristan looked at Bane questioningly.… — S.K. Munt Copy Share Image
“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.” — Markus Herz Copy Share Image
“Not wise, perhaps, to be rude to the Pope's favorite son, but my viper tongue still required a fool now and then on which… — Kate Quinn Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
“ “Do Southerners laugh at different things than Northerners do? Yes, I say--Northerners.” Roy Blount, Jr., Roy Blount’s Book of Southern Humor” — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
