238 Quotes About Librarians

I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like veal.

My work is whatever I want it to be, and I report to no one regularly. The head librarian -- the man in charge of the University's entire collection -- is a figurehead, well-to-do and poorly read, with whom I have only perfunctory contact.

And better still, reference librarians served well in the role that the internet never did: They were the perfect bouncers at the door of bad information. Or, put differently, they were the best vectors to transmit truth.

I walked down the hallway and entered the sitting room. A storm of yellow notepads, broken pencils, papers and books littered the tables and floor of the room, along with a collection of empty beer cans. It looked as if a party of wild librarians had just cleared out.

If you can’t trust a librarian, who can you trust?

And when you are done with the book bring it back and I have something special for you!” She had a huge smile on her face.I said, “Thank you, ma’am,” but I didn’t get too excited ‘ cause I know the kind of things librarians think are special.

The librarian took this all in, standing by the fire and observing the children for a while, letting the silence be. Somehow, it didn’t feel awkward, the way silences often do. Perhaps librarians are more used to quiet than most.

They are Librarians, and they do not fuck around.

She's a former librarian,' Heat said. 'She doesn't have a bad side.' 'You obviously haven't known enough librarians. I wouldn't wish a pissed-off librarian on the worst cretin at Rikers Island.