Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes
This Mrs. Emory remembers she phoned the Horton house to talk to her friend about a class reunion.
Carolyn Keene
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"You only get married the first time once." There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence
Carrie Vaughn
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That Monday after we lost to Washington, that's when everything hit the fan. But instead of succumbing to the environment at that particular time, it was more or less, 'What are we going to do to make this thing turn around?' We decided we had a lot more football to play, and what a story it would be if we turned it around and made the playoffs. And we did just that.
Eddie George
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Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.
William B. Ogden
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I want to make my mark,' he says. But what target, I wonder, are you going to hit?
Cecil Castellucci
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I respect your right to worship Satan, or to worship a tea kettle, or to be a NIMBY, or to be an asshole. There's no law against being an asshole.
Chicken John
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Photorealism's goal is to reproduce a photograph. The best photorealism can't beat a printer, and I have a really nice printer.
Damian Loeb
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The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.
Emile Zola
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Don't get roped into talking about something that you don't really have passion for, and don't get roped into something you don't have expertise in. Why should somebody listen to you? If you're going to take somebody's time, you better deliver.
Anthony Robbins
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Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?
Anton Chekhov
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But I never was a strikeout pitcher like Bob Feller or Dizzy Dean or Dazzy Vance.
Carl Hubbell
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When one has praised Turgenev, however, for the beauty of his character and the beautiful truth of his art, one remembers that he, too, was human and therefore less than perfect. His chief failing was, perhaps, that of all the great artists, he was the most lacking in exuberance. That is why he began to be scorned in a world which rated exuberance higher than beauty or love or pity.
Robert Wilson Lynd
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If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.
Henry Louis Gates
