Librarian Quotes - page 2

I'm a librarian, not an oracle. (Libba Bray)
The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge. View quote
Terry Pratchett
He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless. View quote
Terry Pratchett
It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school. View quote
Sarah Dessen
I'm a born librarian with a sex drive. View quote
David Bowie
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian. View quote
Alberto Manguel
A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country - unless she or he is a lawyer - who is in the position to determine what he or she is looking at is indeed child pornography. View quote
Judith Krug
Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory. View quote
Jasper Fforde
Toward dawn, he dreamed that he was in hiding, in one of the naves of the Clementine Library. What are you looking for? a librarian wearing dark glasses asked him. I'm looking for God, Hladik replied. God, the librarian said, is in one of the letters on one of the pages of one of the four hundred thousand volumes in the Clementine. My parents and my parents' parents searched for that letter; I myself have gone blind searching for it. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat. (Mac Barnett)
Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. Rick: And what is that? Evelyn: I... am a librarian. The Mummy (1999) View quote
Max Allan Collins
Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy. View quote
Rick Riordan
My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure. View quote
Rick Yancey
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian. View quote
Beverly Cleary
I was a librarian. View quote
Beverly Cleary
The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts. View quote
America Ferrera
Darryl Zanuck thought all women were either broads or librarians. He thought I was a librarian. He thought I was smart. View quote
Anne Baxter
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library. View quote
John Lewis (civil rights leader)
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always an enthusiastic reader. Writing and reading seem to me to be different aspects of a single imaginative act. View quote
Margaret Mahy
I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do. (Helen Oyeyemi)
Never argue with a librarian; they know too much. View quote
Carole Nelson Douglas
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. View quote
David Johansen
She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom. View quote
David Lubar
Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about. View quote
Gary D. Schmidt