Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes

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

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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

• I don't think anybody should ever touch anybody in anger, ever.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Anger
  • Touch
  • Don't Think

• Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against this as a method, but it is not what English writers do.

  

  William Golding
  • Method

• I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of women, I can do it as it affects my characters as in 'A Suitable Boy.' I could only write about issues specifically through essays. But I'll do that only if I have something worthwhile to say.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Fiction
  • Novel
  • Careful

• I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Laws

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

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Careful
  • Roof
  • Pussycat