Molly Harper Quotes

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

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• Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Motherhood

• I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Acting
  • Sure
  • Neurotic

• I'm completely neurotic, totally anxious and high-strung all the time.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Time
  • High
  • Anxious

• I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.

  

  Len Wein
  • Hate
  • Crazy
  • Point

• I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.

  

  Len Wein
  • Nature
  • New York
  • Jew

• I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • People
  • Insane
  • Librarian

• The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.

  

  William Styron
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Products

• It was like when you're a little kid and you run into your teacher or librarian at the grocery store or Wal-mart and it's just so startling, because it never occurred to you they existed outside of school.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Librarian

• Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian…"Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?" Twenty minutes later, she had Dorothy convinced that it was for a school project, and she really did not have to telephone Kami's parents.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • School
  • Book
  • Parent

• Stay neurotic. Stay frustrated. Stay emotional. Stay excited. Your life is happening.

  

  Erin Foster
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • Excited

• Are you seeing a psychiatrist?' as a conversation opener would nowadays earn you a punch in the nose, but for fifty years it was a compliment. It meant, 'One can plainly see you are sensitive, intense, and interesting, and therefore neurotic.' Only the dullest of clods trudged around without a neurosis.

  

  Barbara Holland
  • Interesting
  • Compliment
  • Psychiatrist

• You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.

  

  Charles R. Johnson
  • Past
  • Action
  • Made

• Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Librarian

• Librarian of Congress: It's a librarian's dream.

  

  Carla Hayden
  • Dream
  • Congress
  • Librarian

• Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we’ve stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

  

  Emily Matchar
  • Individual
  • Level
  • Neurotic

• Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Past
  • Library
  • Librarian

• The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Teacher
  • Speak
  • Librarian

• Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally.' 'The same thing happened in Holland,' Kate reflected. 'You'd think these guys would learn their lesson -- librarians know how to keep quiet.' 'It helps to ask politely,' said Mr. Benedict

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Library
  • Lessons
  • Quiet

• I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Job
  • Demands

• It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.

  

  Demosthenes
  • Time
  • May
  • Power

• It's weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Mother
  • Dream
  • Daughter

• You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

  

  Molly Harper
  • Neurotic
  • Librarian