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
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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

• We show our faces to support the billions of young people who suffer a lack of education. We show our faces to honour the potential of every young individual on this planet.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • People
  • Education
  • Support

• 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
  • Sports
  • Car

• 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

• To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.

  

  Michael Keaton
  • Day
  • Memories
  • Toys

• My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Desire
  • Leader
  • Been

• I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.

  

  Larry Kirshbaum
  • Business
  • Myself
  • Three

• Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex - pretty much every theme that runs through the periodic table can be found in Element 51.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Money
  • History
  • Pretty

• I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.

  

  Clifton Anderson
  • Greatness
  • Pay
  • Everyone

• 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