Desks Quote by Michael Moore

“I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the…

— Michael Moore

I think it's time we all put our heads down on our desk for quiet time.

— Anonymous

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

— Michael Moore

Back before the internet we had a name for people who bought a single copy of our books and lent them to all their…

— Charles Stross

“...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

The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything.…

— Jane Cleland

“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

“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

“What a vapid job title our culture gives to those honorable laborers the ancient Egyptians and Sumerians variously called Learned Men of the Magic…

— Miles Harvey

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

— Patricia Schroeder

“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

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people…

— William Osler