Quotes About Librarian

If I had a type, I guess you could say I liked brunettes the best, and I kind of liked librarian types, you know, their outer appearance hiding smoldering heat inside….

She looked to me like a librarian is supposed to, slightly stern, with a longer-than-average neck.

one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.

When the librarian went over to talk with another girl, Samantha took out the book she wanted and gave her ticket to the old lady librarian with the dyed hair, whom the children called Mrs Slocum.

The first purpose of a librarian is to preserve and defend our books. Sometimes, that means dying for them - or making someone else die for them. Tota est scientia.

Chief Hannah Moses," she said. "You must be Mrs. Grant." "Heard of me?" "You left an impression. You may be the first combat librarian I've ever met." That earned an almost-full smile from the other woman. "I think most librarians are combat qualified," she said. "It's not as peaceful a job as it looks.

Writing novels seems like a glamorous and exciting occupation, although in reality I suspect that it's a lot less glamorous than professional wrestling and only marginally more exciting than being a librarian.

I happily stepped into that role of librarian as bartender of information. Presiding over shelves of intoxicating items, dispensing whatever brand of knowledge was ordered up, I am sure I poured generously.

Melvil Whoey?" I asked. "Melvil Dewey was a very famous librarian," Mrs. Roopy said, and her eyes got all bright and sparkly and excited.

As a librarian and archivist herself, she knew that history wasn't just written by the victors. First it had to be erased and rewritten. Replacing troublesome truth with self-serving myth.

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

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss -ssso much compressed wisdom.

I was a librarian.

Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

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.

I wanted to be a librarian.

I was a librarian in a city school.

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

Io faccio il mio mestiere, capito? Io sono un libraio, vado in giro, vedo un sacco di gente, vendo i libri, scopro talenti nascosti sotto le montagne di carta… io propago idee. Il mio mestiere è il più rischioso del mondo, capito? Sono responsabile della diffusione dei pensieri, magari di quelli più scomodi.

Today Mrs. Beasley began by clearing her throat. Again, this isn't a worrisome sign. Librarians are not overly talkative so our throats can get froggy from lack of use.

Casanova was a librarian.

Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

Albion Park on a fierce spring morning. A mad March day of ice and fire. Thomas's feet beat a tattoo on the path. Every hair, every bristle on his chin stands on end. He is a small star-ship of blazing neurons- He is a librarian on his way to work, half-blind with sun and cold and memory.

Pulverized by literature,' thought Miss Laburnum. 'The ideal way for a librarian to die.