Caroline B. Cooney Quotes

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

Caroline B. Cooney

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• The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Parents

• When I took my first job, I was among only a handful of women. It was isolating at times. My love for technology kept me going, and I got to where I am today driven by my passion and self confidence.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Women
  • Love
  • Job

• We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Try

• I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Drama

• When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • People
  • Week
  • Fame

• Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Better
  • Animals

• You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• I still tour like a man possessed, because I am.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Tour
  • Possessed

• I love 'I Love Lucy,' and I have the DVD set of 'I Love Lucy.'

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Love
  • I Love
  • DVD

• I love doing theater. That's where my home is.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Home
  • Doing
  • Theater

• I call him free who is led solely by reason.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Free
  • Him
  • Call

• I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Never

• When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Driving

• When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

  

  Carla Bley
  • People
  • Play
  • Behind

• At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Military
  • End
  • NASA

• Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits - and she can wait infinitely.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Psychology

• As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • Different
  • Kind

• I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Day

• Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Peace
  • Joy
  • Door

• Yes, Lord, you are innocence itself: how could you conceive of Nothingness, you who are plenitude? Your gaze is light and transforms all into light: how could you know the half-light in my heart?

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Heart
  • Light

• Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Should
  • Firsts
  • Humility

• Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Great
  • School
  • Friends

• I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

  

  Caroline B. Cooney