Quotes from Scott Douglas

When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either "You're joking, right?" or "They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?

It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it's about time to open a snack bar.

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.

We don't have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.

The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.

It makes logical sense that 168 is a greater number than 17, so why would you shelve 168 first? Because a librarian is always right. To the common man, this looks wrong, but to the librarian, this is right, because a librarian is never wrong.

killing rats wasn't in my job description.

To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I was motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.

The library—the place in my life that was full of books—beagan to teach me that books weren't everything.

I began to see it was the community, not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians were only as important as the community they inspired. If I was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn't be to protect information, it would be to bring the community together and inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for.

It's a cruel world, and unless you're blessed with some talent people will pay money to see, your friends are the only people who will get you where you need to go.

Christianity in my youth wasn't just the right choice; it was the only choice.

The longer you go to church the easier it is to forget one of Jesus's greatest lessons: the kingdom of heaven belongs to children.6 To really understand God, it's best to strip everything away, to get rid of all the distractions and see God as a child might.

Religion by its very principle is not always logical; in essence, faith is believing in something you cannot understand with rational thought.

Even the most liberal religious scholars will agree on two things: one, the baptism of Jesus happened; and two, the crucifixion was real.

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Fear is not a bad thing, soldier. We all have fears. Fear only becomes bad when you become so afraid of that fear that you freeze, and you let that fear take control of you so much that you cannot fight.

The problem with feelings is not the warmth you feel in good times; it's the coldness you feel in the dark times.

I don't want to believe because I'm crazy. I want to believe because it's true.

People will certainly continue to say old things in a fresh new way to keep the study contemporary, but that doesn't change the fact that, barring an archaeological discovery to blow us all out of the water, Christian theology is probably not going to change very much.

I have to wonder now…while the government's off making money with its so-called "business," who governs the country? And I, for one, am just a little frightened of the thought that the future of our country depends on the gaming habits of our children. Will the President propose tomorrow that I let my son or daughter play video games because it supports the country? Will video games replace textbooks in school?!

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