Librarian Quotes - Page 11

• The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?" The queen replied, "I have come here to view the library."

  Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford

  Daughter, Queens, Views

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• The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.

  Sherman Alexie

  Book, People, Judgement

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• But if you close your eyes and listen to Palin and her most irate supporters constantly squawk or bellyache or tweet about how unfair a ride she gets from evil mustache-twirling elites and RINO saboteurs, she sounds like a professional victimologist, the flip side of any lefty grievance group leader. She’s becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska edition. The only difference being, she wears naughty-librarian glasses instead of a James Brown ‘do.

  Matt Labash

  Eye, Naughty, Differences

  "Palin 'becoming Al Sharpton'?". www.politico.com. 2012.

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• Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

  Ben Katchor

  Female, Goats, Mood

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• Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

  Jarrett J. Krosoczka

  Teaching, Media, Generations

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• Just like old librarians, old coins are often more valuable than they appear at face value.

  Kate Klise

  Coins, Faces, Valuable

  Kate Klise, M. Sarah Klise (2011). “Till Death Do Us Bark”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

  Spider Robinson

  Children, Cracks, Dealer

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• Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something a beloved knows that they themselves do not know; or they discover a common rare knowledge; or they can supply knowledge to someone who's lacking. Hasn't everyone found a strange ignorance in someone beguiling? . . .Nowadays, trendy librarians, wanting to be important, say, Knowledge is power. I know better. Knowledge is love.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Falling In Love, Believe, Ignorance

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• A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.

  Vicki Myron

  Book, Reading, People

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• When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in with them there. You're bound to see someone more nervous than you are in a library. Sometimes the librarians themselves are more nervous than you are. I'll probably be a librarian for that reason. Then if I'm nervous on the job, it won't show. I'll just stamp books and look things up for people and run back and forth to the staff room sneaking smokes until I get hold of myself. A library is a great place to hid.

  Marijane Meaker

  Running, Jobs, Book

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• I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Book, Kids, People

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• I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.

  Edward Gorey

  Crazy, Mets

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• I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Book, Doctors, Buoys

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• I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever they needed to be that day: information professionals, teachers, police, community organizers, computer technicians, historians, confidantes, clerks, social workers, storytellers, or, in this case, guardians of my peace.

  Marilyn Johnson

  Teacher, Community, Police

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• ...What is at stake is civilization and humanity, nothing less. The idea that everything is permitted, as Nietzsche put it, rests on the premise of nihilism and has nihilistic implications. I will not pretend that the case against nihilism and for civilization is an easy one to make. We are here confronting the most fundamental of philosophical questions, on the deepest levels. In short, the matter of pornography and obscenity is not a trivial one, and only superficial minds can take a bland and untroubled view of it.

  Irving Kristol

  Philosophical, Views, Civilization

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• When a librarian really believes that a book is harmful, that its content is contrary to the welfare of the community, or that it is destructive of good taste, even if those are his opinions only, he has not only the right, but also the obligation to do what he properly can to keep that book out of the hand of those whom he thinks might be injured by it.

  Jesse Shera

  Book, Believe, Thinking

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• In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

  Norman Mailer

  Thinking, Library, Sanctuary

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• The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Book, Library, Should

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• Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Book, Giving, Library

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• Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Humble, Unique

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• The richest minds need not large libraries.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Mind, Library, Needs

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

  Peter Ackroyd

  Smell, Clothes, Creating

  1987 Chatterton, ch.5.

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• ...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

  Stephen King

  Knowing, Library, Sitting

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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• I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Reading, School

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• I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

  Asa Larsson

  Children, Father, Book

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