#librarians

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#dating

Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid. ↗

— John Green

#books #donuts #librarians #simile #kids

Every reader his or her book. Every book its reader. ↗

— S.R. Ranganathan

#libraries #librarians

Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea. ↗

— Eleanor Brown

#librarians

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#librarians #internet

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

— Richard Powers

#service

The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #quiet-please #librarians

Librarians are your very best friend. And don't ever think otherwise. ↗

— Rett MacPherson

#librarians

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#history #librarians #past #past history #people

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. ↗

— Heraclitus

#assistance #greek #i #i am #librarians