Carolyn Keene (Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson) Quotes

Slowly she surveyed her surroundings and took in the tiny gold lights glinting in every store window and the twin glass elevators decked in red and green bows. A banner hung from the second floor balcony, declaring ONLY SEVEN MORE SHOPPING DAYS TILL XMAS!

Carolyn Keene

• Shopping
• Store
• Surroundings
• Bows
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• Xmas

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• Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Doing

• NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Hope
  • Law
  • Ocean

• It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Game
  • Me
  • Week

• I am a Zionist.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Zionist

• We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Black
  • Color
  • Censorship

• Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Car
  • Sports

• Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Great
  • Music
  • Real

• In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Small
  • Day
  • River

• I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Women
  • Decisions

• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Soul

• British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Along

• I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Book
  • Process
  • Short

• I think for people that are dealing with this out there, the important thing to know is that this is real. It's called CIU, and there are solutions out there for you.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Difficult
  • Nothing
  • More

• When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Win
  • See
  • Run

• To me, family is what is important. If you don't have it, nothing is going to matter.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • Family
  • Me

• To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Artist
  • Find
  • Now

• Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • School
  • Power
  • Age

• Everyone in the gay community doesn't think alike.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • Community
  • Gay

• When you get to the big leagues, the talent pool is on such a level playing field, you have to find a way to separate yourself from incredibly talented guys. Especially when you go through the injuries that I've had, you come back, and you might not physically be able to do some of the things you used to do.

  

  Jake Peavy
  • Pool

• For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

  

  Chili Davis
  • Long

• The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

  

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • Friends

• I do wanna get married. It just sounds great. You get to go grocery shopping together, rent videos, and the kissing and the hugging and the kissing and the hugging under the cozy covers. Mmmm! But sometimes I worry that I don't wanna get married as much as I want to get dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. That might feel pretty good, too.

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Good
  • Great
  • Together

• Slowly she surveyed her surroundings and took in the tiny gold lights glinting in every store window and the twin glass elevators decked in red and green bows. A banner hung from the second floor balcony, declaring ONLY SEVEN MORE SHOPPING DAYS TILL XMAS!

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Shopping
  • Store
  • Surroundings