librariansti’s most recent Quotables

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

You know when you're young, you're growing up, they're almost sexually exciting places because books are powerhouses of knowledge, and therefore they're kind of slightly dark and dangerous. You see books that kind of make you go 'Oh!'

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ‘His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

I have never been convinced there’s anything inherently wrong in having fun.

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

D'you know, in 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important before.

Father Christmas. Santa Claus. Or, as I've always known him, Jeff.

Save me Barry!

Why am I holding this baby? I'm not being sexist but one of you girls has to take this off me before I drop it on its head.

[After Nathan throws a brick through a car windscreen.]
Sally: Are you mentally deficient?
Nathan: If I was mentally deficient I would have missed.

Nathan: Why was he in the boot of your car?
Jamie: Because he's a twat!

Can we please stop killing our probation workers?

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more.

There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.

You see, but you do not observe.