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  • Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

    Mother   Brother   Taste  
    "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.
  • I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.

    World   Librarian   Feels  
    Twitter post from Nov 5, 2009
  • Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

  • Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

    Thinking   Library   Done  
  • I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

    Real   People   Miracle  
  • Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.

    People   Puddles   Fetch  
  • The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.

    Book   Voice   Mysterious  
    FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 30, 2015
  • It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a librarian, it is but an empty shell.

    Book   Heart   School  
  • 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.

    Book   Power   Soul  
  • In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

    Teacher   Reading   Enemy  
    "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015.
  • After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

    Book   Together   Purpose  
    Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've always chosen to believe the latter. After all, it's the librarian's one sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

  • I live between fantasy and reality at all times. In that way, I’m a librarian.

    Reality   Way   Fantasy  
  • My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.

  • I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media? It's not often poets get on mainstream media." I said, "Well I think you're the dominant media, the dominant culture, but you're not the mainstream media. The mainstream media is still the high culture of intellectuals: writers, readers, editors, librarians, professors, artists, art critics, poets, novelists, and people who think. They are the mainstream culture, even though you may be the dominant culture."

    Art   Couple   Thinking  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

    Men   Earth   Firsts  
  • If Donald Trump and the Wicked Witch of the West had a kid, it would be Jayne-Anne. She looks like a librarian with some money and good taste in clothes but underneath the Verace, she's Godzilla with tits.

    Kids   Clothes   Wicked  
  • Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers.

    Dream   Special   Legends  
  • The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

    Book   Space   Silence  
    Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.187, Random House
  • What can I say? Librarians rule.

  • A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

  • If she can't spell, why is she a librarian? Librarians should know how to spell.

    Beverly Cleary (2001). “Ramona's world”
  • 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 (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.123, Melville House
  • A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

  • 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.

    Moving   Book   Smell  
  • Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.307, Ballantine Books
  • Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.

    Marilyn Johnson (2010). “This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All”, p.12, Harper Collins
  • Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!

    Girl   Dark   Eyeglasses  
    "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". Book by Michael Chabon, September 19, 2000.
  • I mean, these are really dedicated people [in Lovecraft Society] when it comes to [h.P.] Lovecraft. But in the top floor of the John Hay Library, you have all of Lovecraft's archives. And messing around in there, I noticed, I said, what are these paintings? And the librarian told me, "Well, those are Pickman's paintings." I said, "I thought this was like something he made up, like The Necronomicon, that kind of stuff." And he said no, that the guy actually existed.

    Mean   People   Guy  
    Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com
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