Librarian Quotes (page 3)

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• driving
• library
• earth

And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very sexy indeed, but with that added owlish touch that drives you wild. Kim Stanley Robinson

• knowledge
• powerful
• good

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see. Jodi Picoult

• war
• soldier
• imagination

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination. Neil Gaiman

• book
• help
• helpful

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. Terry Prachett

• thinking
• patriotic
• adulting

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed. Paula Poundstone

• motivational
• motivation
• motivated

The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user. Seth Godin

• women
• look
• heart

To my thinking, a great librarian must have a clear head, a strong hand, and, above all, a great heart. And when I look into the future, I am inclined to think that most of the men who achieve this greatness will be women. Melvil Dewey

• book
• fall
• library

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

• feminist
• together
• beauty

Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which... Joanna Russ

• thinking
• believe
• you me

Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right? Neil Gaiman

• nightmare
• badges
• badge

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge. Terry Prachett

• inspirational
• teacher
• inspiration

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill. Ray Bradbury

• tough
• which
• because

Which was complimentary but unhelpful, because the librarians were tough. Robertson Davies

• past
• history
• game

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians. Warren Buffett

• answered
• bring
• back

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one. Neil Gaiman