238 Quotes About Librarians

Lance could be trusted with your life. Librarians are like that.

Remember, if confronted by a librarian while looking for a book to check out, do not attempt to escape by climbing a tree. There are no trees in the library and the precious moments it will take you to look around and realize this will allow the librarian to strike. Don't become a statistic.

I stood in the corridor feeling like an angry pebble. It didn't matter where I rolled off to. The mystery and treachery of the world continued, and a pebble like me could get angry over anything it liked and it wouldn't do any good. Librarians not reading, I thought to myself. Sometimes I don't know why I bother.

Here, you carry these. I may need my hands free.Why the hell are we taking ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber?’ Light reading, if we get stuck on the subway?No, in case we get stopped by some of Qing Song’s minions who can’t read Chinese.Oh. Right. Hey, that’s not a bad thought. Though if we’re going to be throwing them away anyhow, why not take ‘The Investiture of the Gods’...Because I like ‘The Investiture of the Gods’ and I don’t like ‘The Dream of the Red Chamber’.

Reports also indicate that the Night Vale Private Library will be entirely free of librarians, a fact that will be of little comfort to the many public library-goers who are injured or killed in librarian maulings every year.

Colorful posters with appealing statements like "Get into a good book this summer" and "We are going to force you into a good book this summer" and "You are going to get inside this book and we are going to close it on you and there is nothing you can do about it" have appeared overnight around the library entrance and in local shops and businesses...

Not that he'd have doubted Helen's word in any case; she was a librarian, and librarians were never wrong.

I slammed the book shut and and crowed, 'And that is why you don't kick the librarian off the investigation!

Curiosity about the world and how people create, use, and access information should fuel our practice.