Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
-
We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.
-
I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.
-
I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.
-
When I got my braces removed, I felt more like a real woman, any traces of my childhood were stripped, just like the cold metal that inhabited my mouth for 2 years.
-
Sin is blatant mutiny against God.
-
Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
-
I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.
-
Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs,” sighed George, patting the heading of the map. “We owe them so much.” “Noble men, working tirelessly to help a new generation of law-breakers,” said Fred solemnly.
-
I think that band [Glenn Miller] was the beginning of the end. It was a mechanized version of what they called jazz music. I still can't stand to listen to it.
-
The reason I brought this is if I ran into those (expletives). They sued us ... (so) they should have a bit of honor.
-
Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.
-
Imagination is a sort of faint perception.
-
Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.
-
Totally ignored by the Israeli establishment for decades.
-
The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.
-
So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could have been written by that far off man who first saw a tree trunk roll and made a wheel and cart and harnessed in his mare and cracked his whip and drove away to disappear beyond the hill! Or that first man who made a boat and raised a sail and disappeared hull down to unknown shores!
-
We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global responsibility.