Regis Philbin Quotes

I was a librarian.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

I was a librarian in a city school.

I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

A library is thought in cold storage.

A library implies an act of faith.

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

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.

But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.

I got my first library card, for Hendon Library in north London, when I was two years old.

Librarians are awesome; I don't care who knows it.

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.

Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone will always be there to help them find the answer-our librarians. (A librarian's) job is an important one. Our nation runs on the fuel of information and imagination that libraries provide. And they are in charge of collecting and sharing this information in a helpful way. Librarians inform the public, and by doing so, they strengthen our great democracy.

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.

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.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.