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

• Picture books have terrible PR amongst the children of this country. Ask any librarian: after a certain age, children just aren't interested in the picture book section anymore. It's filled with moms, strollers, and unbalanced toddlers.

  

  Rebecca Serle
  • Picture
  • Certain
  • Librarian

• The barks of trees are best gathered in the spring, if it be of great trees, as oaks or the like, because they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all barks only for present use.

  

  Nicholas Culpeper
  • Spring
  • Best Way
  • Barks

• Modern morality is all about perception.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Perception
  • Modern
  • Morality

• 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