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.

Molly Harper

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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

• I was actually born and raised in Puerto Rico. I moved to the States when I was 19. I was very impressed early on by being around people who spoke my language and ate the same food and listened to the same music, dressed the same. But then you look around and, you know, you're not in Puerto Rico.

  

  Miguel Zenon
  • Language
  • Actually
  • Dressed

• What we all have to know is the struggle is long. It's long. It may not end in our lifetimes. But the struggle is what gives our lives meaning and purpose. I tell people to take time out of activism every day to take care of their bodies, to take care of their souls and spirits.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Struggle
  • Souls
  • Take Care

• Honestly, Think Like a Man was the first romantic comedy that I liked. I'd kind of avoided them for awhile because I never felt that any of them were really smart enough. But when I read this script, I genuinely fell in love with the characters, especially my own. So, I just wanted to be a part of it.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Men
  • Character
  • Comedy

• If we talk about changes of power in Russia, that has occurred several times in the past century. After Stalin came Khrushchev, who implemented his legacy quite radically, one could say. But there was no blood, nonetheless. After Brezhnev came Gorbachev. I'm not talking about the ones who were in power for only a short period of time. Gorbachev, too, left a very radical legacy.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Past
  • Legacy
  • Radical

• I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

  

  Euripides
  • Health
  • Hunger
  • Gifts

• 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