Librarians Quotes

Librarians Quote of the day

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

One can never had too many librarian friends.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

The library is the temple of learning.

If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.

I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, “Poems of the Gifts

You cannot have a really terrific library without at least one terrific librarian, the way you cannot have a really terrific bedroom unless you can lock the door.

For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.

Everybody should have a librarian.

The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power.

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.

Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.

Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction.

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. – Linton Weeks, Washington Post, 13 January 2001

Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.

Impersonating a quiet, gentle librarian like Barbara Gordon--You deserve to be taken out of circulation!

I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.

The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.

A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills!

Google can bring you back 100, 000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side.

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

Creating a world within the imagination one day at a time through words and colors.

That night, Hallie was relieved when Linda Soares, the town librarian who'd spent years trying to impress Nick with her low-cut shirts and book recommendations, joined them for dinner.

On a good day, my style is librarian chic. On a bad day, it's frumpy mother.

To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.

My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.

Or possibly possessiveness was a characteristic of draconic affection. They were supposed to be hoarders, after all. Not so different from Librarians.

All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.

Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made.

When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?

We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.

The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.

...killing rats wasn’t in my job description.

To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of thepast and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. Iwas motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.

In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely.