Librarian Quotes - Page 11

• I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians.

  Christopher Morley

  Wish, Future Happiness, World

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.123, Melville House

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• The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God. I feel a presence in the empty chair beside me. The librarian watches me suspiciously. But the library is a sacred place, and I sit with the patron saint of readers. Pulsing goddess light moves through me for one moment like a glimpse of eternity instantly forgotten. She is gone. I smell mold, I hear the clock ticking, I see an empty chair. Ask me now and I'll say this is just a place where you can't play music or eat. She's gone. The library sucks.

  Laura Whitcomb

  Moving, Book, Smell

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• The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.

  David Eddings

  Book, Men, Looks

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• I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.

  Kami Garcia

  Book, Giving, Beautiful Creatures

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• Jace's eyes sparkled, but he said calmly, "Not at all. the Silent Brothers can help her retrieve her memories." "You hate the Silent Brothers," protested Isabelle. "I don't hate them," said Jace candidly."I'm afraid of them. It's not the same thing." "I thought you said they were libarians," said Clary. "They are librarians." Simon whistled. "Those must be some killer late fees.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Memories, Hate

  Cassandra Clare (2007). “City of Bones”, Margaret K. McElderry Books

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• Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

  John Green

  Children, Kids, Blow

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• It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

  Neil Gaiman

  Motivational, Appreciation, Kindness

  FaceBook post by Neil Gaiman from Apr 14, 2010

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• 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.

  Rick Yancey

  Mother, Book, Bird

  "Quickfire interview: Rick Yancey". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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• How index-learning turns no student pale,
  Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Eels, Library

  Alexander Pope (1856). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope”, p.247

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

  Edward Gorey

  Crazy, Mets

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

  John le Carre

  Reading, Book, Men

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• Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it.

  Peter Drucker

  Library, Needs, Tools

  Peter Drucker (2013). “The Changing World of the Executive”, p.37, Routledge

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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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