Librarians Quote by Vernor Vinge Download Open image ““Ravna became a librarian. "The ultimate dilettante!" Lynne had teased.”” — Vernor Vinge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Librarians
“Johanna was looking at her expectantly, and suddenly Ravna realized that the girl thought librarians must be experts at everything.” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well. “We” — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“Librarians were somewhat on a par with God-who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many different types… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
“Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat on par wit God- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like veal.” — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
“Katherine Anne Dugan had long ago realized that being pretty helped her to be a better librarian, actually stimulating interest in learning and reading.… — Suzanne Roberts Copy Share Image
“Why a librarian?” he asked. “Princesses weren’t in high demand, so I opted for the next best thing.” — Sidney Bristol Copy Share Image
I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.’ That was easy for… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules. — Vernor Vinge 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
“While We are out of Touch or How to Survive and Prosper during the Next Thirty Minutes by Your Friend, the Mysterious Stranger” — Vernor Vinge 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
