Librarian Quotes - Page 14

• The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Home, Names

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• Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.

  Lady Gaga

  Culture, Loyal, Obsession

  "Lady Gaga With Three Heads Covers V Magazine, First Fashion Column Inside" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2011.

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• Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

  Tina Fey

  Character, World, Comedy

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldn't have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldn't be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a library's peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of light.

  Karen Russell

  Book, Reading, Light

  FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Dec 02, 2012

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• She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Thoughtful, Library

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• If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.

  Warren Buffett

  Book, Rich, Made

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• 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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Kindness, Hands, Pie

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)”, p.106, Random House

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• Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of.

  Kristin Cashore

  Dream, Queens, Want

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.304, Hachette UK

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• In some ways a mark of good parenting is that you don't try to make your children into little knockoffs of yourself. None of us went into business. None of us became powerful people like that. All of us pursued our own passions and our own interests. One of my brothers was filmmaker. One of my brothers was a teacher. My sister was a librarian.

  Bill Ayers

  Teacher, Brother, Children

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm grateful for every teacher or librarian who reads a book and says, "This is exactly the book that so-and-so needs to read; I'll get it in his hands." I'm amazed at the network of adults who make sure that kids get books.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Teacher, Book, Grateful

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Going out and not only meeting the kids, but meeting the teachers and the librarians and seeing the world, fills me up.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Teacher, Kids, Going Out

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I am not in touch with other writers. I don't have very much contact with other writers. I don't get invited to these things or I don't go to them. I hate panels. I speak to librarians and to conferences of English teachers. That's what I do: teachers and librarians. And high school kids.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Teacher, Hate, Kids

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• The amplification of our diverse literary voices is a political act of resistance. Our lives are important, too. Our lives should be represented in our literature. And that literature is vital, compelling, and accessible. That literature deserves to be disseminated and noticed and available. And with respect to the dissemination and promotion of diverse voices - librarians, educators, and editors of literary journals play such an important role. They deserve not only a hearty shout out, but also our thanks and support.

  Daniel Olivas

  Support, Political, Important

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• I mean, I've never been thinking that if you're a fan you have to buy everything that somebody puts out. I mean, you've got a choice. If you don't want it, just don't buy it. It's also a reaction to YouTube and sharing of files. A lot of it is really bad sound, really low quality. So the librarian in me wants it at least to exist there so that in 20 years when I'm sitting in my rocking chair, it will still exist in the best sound quality possible, even though it only sold 1000 units or whatever. As much as I love the whole pirate kind of thing, the quality suffers.

  Bjork

  Mean, Thinking, Pirate

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• At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Heart, Bird, Monk

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• One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting out information. The mind however does not actively sort out information. The information sorts itself out and organises itself into patterns. The mind is passive. The mind only provides an opportunity for the information to behave in this way. The mind provides a special environment in which information can become self-organising. This special environment is a memory surface with special characteristics.

  Edward de Bono

  Memories, Book, Thinking

  Edward De Bono (2010). “Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  America Ferrera

  Patriotic, Names, America

  "This much I know: America Ferrera" by Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

  David Johansen

  Mother, New York, Father

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• I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

  Michael Sims

  School, Library, Bookstores

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• I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.

  James Mangold

  Book, Character, Kids

  "'The Wolverine': New film cuts deep into Hugh Jackman hero" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. January 08, 2013.

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• The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teacher, Giving, Speak

  Foreword to "A Passion for Books" by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan, 1999.

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• 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.

  Guy Browning

  Book, Mean, Understanding

  "How to... use a library" by Guy Browning, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2003.

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• My family has schoolteachers and librarians, and I think people who teach are probably some of our greatest American heroes. Certainly, underpaid and unsung.

  Nick Offerman

  Hero, Thinking, People

  Interview with Chris Baio, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

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• I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them. You know, they've had their budgets cut. They're paid nothing. Books are falling apart. The libraries are just like the ass end of everything, right?

  Michael Moore

  Book, Fall, Cutting

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• [Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

  Maya Angelou

  Determination, Heart, Delight

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