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Quotes About Librarian

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.
~ Ben Katchor
I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.
~ Gillian Flynn
When people ask me that question that everyone asks: What do you do? I'd say, I'm in customer service, which was true. To me, it's nice day's work when you make a lot of people smile. I know that sounds too earnest, but it's true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.
~ Gillian Flynn
I mean I would rather be a librarian but I worry about the job security, books may be temporary dicks are forever.
~ Gillian Flynn
Morgan is a magical librarian from the time of King Arthur. She travels through time and space, gathering books.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
I heard about her from one of the top librarians at the public library, this girl from Avenue A who read Greek and slipped into one of the rare books rooms three times. They said she was trouble, but good trouble. Good trouble.
~ Maureen Johnson
My thoughts were still careening, still trying to make sense of Roger's strange and cryptic e-mail. If you get this, that means they finally succeeded, he'd written. So he was expecting to be killed. I've taken precautions to protect you and Gabe, he'd said. The means to hold them off. What could that be? Would Lauren know? And what was that bizarre postscript—Please say good-bye to the librarian—supposed to mean? A code, surely, but what?
~ Joseph Finder
I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
I don't want to end up a bureaucrat in the time-management business for God or a librarian cataloguing timeless truths. Salvation is kicking in the womb of creation right now, any time now. Pay attention.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
~ Beverly Cleary
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
~ Peter Straub
Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.
~ Max Barry
And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's as creepy as hell. Thank you for seeking out stories, the kind that take place in your brain.
~ Max Barry
I met a librian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she wanats to switch it off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.
~ Max Barry
Ingrid dresses more like a librarian than any librarian in the history of libraries.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
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.
~ Patricia Briggs
one of the secret masters of the world: a librarian. They control information. Don't ever p**s one off.
~ Spider Robinson
I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.
~ Lady Gaga
If she can't spell, she shouldn't be a librarian.
~ Beverly Cleary
conversing, in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna
~ Sylvia Plath
He read The Lord of the Rings for what I'm estimating the millionth time, one of his greatest loves and greatest comforts since he'd first discovered it, back when he was nine and lost and lonely and his favorite librarian had said, Here, try this, and with one suggestion changed his life. Got through almost the whole trilogy, but then the line "and out of Far Harad black men like half-trolls" and he had to stop, his head and heart hurting too much.
~ Junot Diaz
More twisted than a librarian's love life (trust me, they're a strange bunch)
~ Brandon Sanderson
What does she look like?" "Glasses," I said. "Snobbish face. Usually has her hair in a bun." "The glasses," Grandpa Smedry said slowly. "Did they have… horn rims?" "Usually." "Hyperventilating Hobbs!" he exclaimed. "A Librarian! Quickly, lad, we have to go! Get dressed; I'll go steal some food from your foster parents!
~ Brandon Sanderson
My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost yearly. I loved everything by Roald Dahl, but my favourite was probably 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' A librarian gave me a first edition of that book, which I treasure.
~ Rick Yancey