Top 189 Librarian Quotes & Sayings

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

Never argue with a librarian; they know too much.

I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for 'Fargo.' One of my best friends from college is a librarian, and she started tracking after each interview how many Twitter followers I got. She and her librarian friends were like, 'We're going to make a graph.' And I was like, 'Alright, nerds.'

Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

You must overcome any shyness and have a conversation with the librarian, because he can offer you reliable advice that will save you much time. You must consider that the librarian (if not overworked or neurotic) is happy when he can demonstrate two things: the quality of his memory and erudition and the richness of his library, especially if it is small. The more isolated and disregarded the library, the more the librarian is consumed with sorrow for its underestimation. A person who asks for help makes the librarian happy.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until the present, the librarian has been principally occupied with the book as a thing, as a material object. From now on he must give his attention to the book as a living function. He must become a policeman, master of the raging book.

He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

Women are more open to trying on a new personality every season; they can go from goth to bombshell to librarian, whatever.

I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.

I'm a born librarian with a sex drive.

The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

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

I thank my dad for giving me a good exposure to comedy since childhood. He was a librarian and I would read a lot of comics.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

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

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.

The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian’s opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be.

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

The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

I was a librarian in a city school.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.

My mum was a librarian, and my dad worked in Greenland.

I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

Just to be back in the world of 'The Librarian' again was such a joy.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost in the Dust.

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.

I've never been particularly interested in genre distinctions. They seem to me more useful to a librarian than to a writer.

Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country unless she or he is a lawyer who is in the position to determine what he or she is looking at is indeed child pornography.

The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.

One can never had too many librarian friends.

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

I wanted to be a librarian.

Jeremy Corbyn confuses the public because he looks like a librarian and enjoys baking bread.

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

I was a librarian.

Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.