#librarian

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap. ↗

— David Eddings

#librarians #libraries #library #scholar #scholarship

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#political

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians. ↗

— Pseudonymous Bosch

#librarian #pirate #secret #treasure #librarians

I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that! ↗

— Peter Cameron

#librarians

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

— Jasper Fforde

#librarians #librarians

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

— Joss Whedon

#knowlege #librarians

I am not the kind of girl who trusts a man to tell her everything she needs to know in his own due time, so I did some research on my sire. You can take the girl out of the library, but you can't take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl. ↗

— Molly Harper

#librarian #vampire #vampire-romance #librarians

The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#librarians

God bless the Reference Librarians ↗

— James Lee Burke

#librarians

Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am. And what is that? I... am a librarian. ↗

— The Mummy

#librarians