Amy Klobuchar Quotes

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some classes to get up to speed with 21st-century librarianship.

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.

Librarianship is a form of heroism. It’s just not as flashy as swords and dragons.

I was a librarian.

I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.

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.

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

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs. Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

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 awesomeness.

Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

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

Those who declared librarians obsolete when the Internet rage first appeared are now red-faced. We need them more than ever. The Internet is full of 'stuff' but its value and readability is often questionable. 'Stuff' doesn't give you a competitive edge, high-quality related information does.

Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the Internet.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

I wanted to pursue chemical engineering because I thought it was the future.

Already in go-karts, I said, 'OK, that's what I really want to do professionally as a career, as a job.'

I wanted to be a dentist actually.

I was about 15 when I decided that acting was what I wanted to pursue professionally.

What can I say? Librarians rule.