11 Movie Quotes about Librarians (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 8, 2025

Memorable quotes about librarians, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Andy had transformed a storage room smelling of rat turds and turpentine into the best prison library in New England...

Quote from The Shawshank Redemption

2 And it wasn't that she was just selling books. It was that she was helping people become whoever it was they were going to turn out to be.

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail

3 Seventy percent of all archeology is done in the library. Research. Reading.

Quote from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

4 I cause no trouble. The prison authorities appreciate that. They made me assistant librarian.

Quote from The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

5 Miss Gordon, do you have any volumes at the Gotham City Public Library on the occult sciences? -Any number of them.

Quote from Batman (1966)

6 I once worked in the library in the Prado in Madrid, but it didn't teach me nothin', I recall.

Quote from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

7 I'll run over to the library and change the book.

Quote from Shockproof (1949)

8 Shaolin rules are strict. I'm forbidden to enter many of the temple halls. Especially the library. Everyone is checked before being allowed to enter.

Quote from Shaolin Plot (1977)

9 I wonder. Could I go to the library and look myself up in the old newspaper archives?

Quote from Back to the Future Part III

10 All you do is eat and sleep. I want you to get some education. Here's my library card. Why don't you go down there and take out a few books? It's time you learned how to do something besides eating and sleeping.

Quote from It's Magic, Charlie Brown