Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes

I promise to be as careful as a pussycat walking up a slippery roof

Carolyn Keene

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• I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Friends
  • Yourself
  • Awesome

• I don’t know what a star is. I never think about these things, because the more you think about them, the more your ears get used to them.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Star
  • Things
  • Ears

• I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Song

• School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • School
  • Focus
  • Knack

• Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Present
  • Acting

• Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Through
  • Somebody
  • Gap

• If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Jump
  • Castle
  • Ketchup

• I do think there is some chance we will see increased private sector savings in the next year or two if housing prices were to moderate.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Chance
  • Prices
  • Private Sector

• I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Purpose

• I've chosen to be a commentator and an analyzer of politics, rather than an actual doer of it. I think it could have gone the other way, but I'm not sorry that it didn't, because this made it easier to be home with my kids and to spend time with them. Writing you can do right in your house. You don't have to go anywhere.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Taxes
  • Hungry

• My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Heaven
  • My Soul
  • Loveliness

• Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Success

• I've picked up a great appetite for pastrami on rye and a nice cream soda. It is fantastic. So I have to be careful or I'm going to just get really fat.

  

  Vincent Piazza
  • Nice
  • Careful
  • Fantastic

• Hollis thought he looked like William Burroughs, minus the bohemian substrate (or perhaps the methadone). Like someone who'd be invited quail shooting with the vice-president, though too careful to get himself shot.

  

  William Gibson
  • President
  • Careful
  • Bohemian

• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

  

  William James
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• Fantasy is the tendency of Americans, going back to colonial times, to look at the Middle East as a type of fractured mirror of the United States - a type of mirror that could look a lot more like the United States, if, say, a Middle Eastern George Washington would emerge.

  

  Michael Oren
  • American
  • Mirror
  • Tendency

• I promise to be as careful as a pussycat walking up a slippery roof

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Careful
  • Roof
  • Pussycat