Quotes About Karen Carpenter

#1. I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first record player when I was six years old as well as a Karen Carpenter record.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#2. Rich tofu-eaters would move out to the country, buy a small farm that was going under anyway and then not know what to do with it. (See Green Acres and multiply by hundreds of thousands and both members Eva Gabor. But crossed with Karen Carpenter and take away all shreds of common sense.)

John Ringo

#3. I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all ... being married ... being a mother.

Karen Carpenter

#4. We're on the brink of an Adventure. Don't spoil it by asking questions!

P.L. Travers

#5. Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song

Karen Carpenter

#6. I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

Karen Carpenter

#7. The image we have would be impossible for Mickey Mouse to maintain. We're just ... normal people.

Karen Carpenter

#8. I may not be in control of anything else, but I am in control of my body.

Karen Carpenter

#9. I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.

Karen Carpenter

#10. Not enough people in this world are happy.

Karen Carpenter

#11. It's not something you tell your single best friend. It'd be like rubbing your nose in the poop of my happiness.

Shannon Hale

#12. People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.

Karen Carpenter

#13. There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.

Jean Genet

#14. Even the best computer in the world has no idea that it exists. You do. No one knows what creates that ineffable awareness that we're here ...

Jeffrey Kluger

#15. I had no idea whether I could play 'em or not, but I wanted to and I was very determined ... but the band director said #That's not really normal.' Of course, all you have to tell me is that something's not normal and I'll go for it!!

Karen Carpenter

#16. I love you, Miss Mary. I'm no good for you, but if you'll have me, I'm yours. Forever.

Kristina Douglas

#17. Our first single, 'Ticket To Ride', was a kind of half-hit, half flop: in some places it was number one, in others it was ash-tray material.

Karen Carpenter

#18. We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period ... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know?And it was such a turn around, I guess it caught people by surprise.

Karen Carpenter

#19. Dedicated to my brother Richard with all my heart.

Karen Carpenter

#20. I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.

Karen Carpenter

#21. Loneliness is such a sad affair.

Karen Carpenter

#22. It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.

Karen Carpenter

#23. Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.

Karen Carpenter

#24. I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more good science fiction than anyone else alive.

Gardner Dozois