Quotes of: Librarian Keyword

I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.

Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large parties of armed librarians.

Lirael

She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.

Sarah Beth Durst

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

Theresa Breslin

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

Justin Winsor

Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

Charles Ogden

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

Heraclitus

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

Ian MacKaye

I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us, and there weren't any at that time.

Beverly Cleary

A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not been for the help and suggestions of archivists and librarians.

Antony Beevor

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

Bruce Coville

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

The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

With 'A Northern Light,' I've already heard from teenage readers, teachers, librarians - it's been so gratifying. It's amazing that you can take something that matters so deeply to you and make it matter to someone else.

Jennifer Donnelly

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.

Infinite Jest

, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.

Quidditch Through the Ages

My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

Karyn Parsons

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Neil Gaiman