42 quotes found
“I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, Poems of the Gifts”
“Blaming the library for exposure to pornography is like blaming the lake if your child walks up to it alone, falls in and then drowns. David Sawyer, Spokesman-Review, 18 December 2000”
“I deserve a swift kick in the shorts for all the times Ive stubbornly wound my way through the library stacks, my mule head leading the way, searching fruitlessly for information a librarian could ...”
“She, of all people, knew the sacred trust that word -- "librarian" -- implied. Because a librarian was supposed to to be a spiritual, intellectual mentor who kept your secrets and didn't give you a...”
“Everybody should have a librarian.”
“Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time.And information was hard to find. And it was hard to find because it was like a flower growing in a desert you had a long way to walk, b...”
“The Leningrad Public Library remained open throughout the siege and became a place for people to congregate. People came to the library to read, even when weak from cold and exhaustion . . . Some d...”
“I became interested in librarians while researching my first book, about obituaries. With the exception of a few showy eccentrics, like the former soldier in Hitler's army who had a sex change and ...”
“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. Linton Weeks, Washington Post, 13 January 2001”
“Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesome...”
“It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable s...”
“When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.”
“In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim.”
“Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.”
“She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the librar...”
“We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.”
“...killing rats wasn’t in my job description.”
“A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there’s this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet and not to run. But the thing was, that lady—that i...”
“There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wantsto protect culture. The only thing about my pending career thatwas changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community...”
“I deserve a swift kick in the shorts for all the times I’ve stubbornly wound my way through the library stacks, my mule head leading the way, searching fruitlessly for information a librarian could...”
