Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes

What’s in your backpack, Bess?” Nancy Drew asked

Carolyn Keene

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• Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • History
  • Will
  • Accept

• I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Work
  • Career
  • Band

• People - I hate to use the word 'fans' - are very respectful. It's not like I'm some pop idol or big movie star. I'm very approachable, and I love the people who enjoy me, because they react like they've run into a friend. Usually, it's like, 'Hey, Wanda! How ya' doing?'

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Love
  • Movie

• Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Art
  • May
  • Interesting

• Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.

  

  David Farr

• Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Heart's always been sort of like a cockroach. You can set off a bomb, and it'll still be alive underneath.

  

  Ann Wilson Heart
  • Heart

• The human spirit and what it can go through... that's pretty inspiring.

  

  Dean Cain
  • Pretty

• When we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side when, actually, the things right in front of us are often the hardest to see: the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.

  

  Apollo Robbins

• I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and they have an overview.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • People

• I would say that there's definitely some advantages with me being able to talk shop with some of the effects people. Because I come from a post-production world, I can speak shorthand with them. I don't think many other actors can say that and know how the process 100% works.

  

  Masi Oka
  • People
  • World

• There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

  

  Alan Davies

• The importance of the House is... far more important than my future.

  

  Peter Slipper
  • Important
  • Future
  • House

• Everything seems simpler from a distance.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Distance
  • Simpler

• It's going to be hard. But I think that when we are in tough environments, it helps us focus more and it helps us concentrate. We're looking forward to it. We are playing with a lot of confidence right now and we believe in each other more than ever.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Believe
  • Focus
  • Confidence

• Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • God
  • America

• Maybe it's just, I've always been to the less traveled places, in any topic, whether it's history, I always like to just choose the most obscure topic. And I don't know why I have that impulse. I can't really explain it but I've been doing that since I was a little kid.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Why
  • History

• The world, an entity out of everything, was created by none of the gods or men, but was, is and will be eternally living fire, regularly becoming ignited and reg- ularly becoming extinguished.

  

  Heraclitus
  • World
  • Fire
  • Gods

• Without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Time
  • Work
  • Primitive Forces

• Your backpack is a part of your identity as a student.

  

  Blake Mycoskie
  • Identity
  • Student
  • Backpack

• I'll use any excuse to buy a new backpack.

  

  Michael Potts
  • Excuse
  • Backpack

• What’s in your backpack, Bess?” Nancy Drew asked

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Backpack