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Arnold Bennett Quotes

2011-08-02T01:00:00.001-07:00

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
Arnold Bennett

A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
Arnold Bennett

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
Arnold Bennett

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
Arnold Bennett

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Arnold Bennett

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Arnold Bennett

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Arnold Bennett

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
Arnold Bennett

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Arnold Bennett

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Arnold Bennett

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
Arnold Bennett

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
Arnold Bennett

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
Arnold Bennett

The moment you're born you're done for.
Arnold Bennett

The price of justice is eternal publicity.
Arnold Bennett

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Arnold Bennett

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
Arnold Bennett

Alan Bennett Quotes

2011-08-02T00:59:00.001-07:00

Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
Alan Bennett

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
Alan Bennett

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
Alan Bennett

I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
Alan Bennett

I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
Alan Bennett

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
Alan Bennett

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
Alan Bennett

Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
Alan Bennett

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.
Alan Bennett

My films are about embarrassment.
Alan Bennett

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
Alan Bennett

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
Alan Bennett

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Alan Bennett

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
Alan Bennett

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
Alan Bennett

Tony Benn Quotes

2011-08-02T00:58:00.001-07:00

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
Tony Benn

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
Tony Benn

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
Tony Benn

Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
Tony Benn

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.
Tony Benn

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn

It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
Tony Benn

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
Tony Benn

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
Tony Benn

The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
Tony Benn

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.
Tony Benn

Gottfried Benn Quotes

2011-08-02T00:57:00.000-07:00

Whoever wants to understand much must play much.
Gottfried Benn

Walter Benjamin Quotes

2011-08-02T00:56:00.000-07:00

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
Walter Benjamin

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
Walter Benjamin

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Walter Benjamin

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
Walter Benjamin

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Walter Benjamin

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Walter Benjamin

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Walter Benjamin

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Walter Benjamin

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Walter Benjamin

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
Walter Benjamin

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
Walter Benjamin

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
Walter Benjamin

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Walter Benjamin

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Walter Benjamin

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Walter Benjamin

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Walter Benjamin

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
Walter Benjamin

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.
Walter Benjamin

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Walter Benjamin

Richard Benjamin Quotes

2011-08-02T00:53:00.000-07:00

I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.
Richard Benjamin

It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places.
Richard Benjamin

Judah Philip Benjamin Quotes

2011-08-02T00:51:00.000-07:00

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.
Judah Philip Benjamin

Andre Benjamin Quotes

2011-08-02T00:50:00.002-07:00

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.
Andre Benjamin

When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it.
Andre Benjamin

Annette Bening Quotes

2011-08-02T00:50:00.001-07:00

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
Annette Bening

And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen."
Annette Bening

By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.
Annette Bening

I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice.
Annette Bening

I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff.
Annette Bening

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them," so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise.
Annette Bening

I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.
Annette Bening

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.
Annette Bening

I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky.
Annette Bening

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.
Annette Bening

I think we as celebrities have a lot more control.
Annette Bening

My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.
Annette Bening

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
Annette Bening

Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?"
Annette Bening

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.
Annette Bening

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?
Annette Bening

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.
Annette Bening

Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.
Annette Bening

Roberto Benigni Quotes

2011-08-02T00:49:00.001-07:00

Fellini belongs to nature.
Roberto Benigni

For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.
Roberto Benigni

I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.
Roberto Benigni

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity.
Roberto Benigni

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
Roberto Benigni

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
Roberto Benigni

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
Roberto Benigni

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.
Roberto Benigni

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards.
Roberto Benigni

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!
Roberto Benigni

William R. Benet Quotes

2011-08-02T00:48:00.000-07:00

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
William R. Benet

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.
William R. Benet

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.
William R. Benet

Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes

2011-08-02T00:47:00.002-07:00

Dreaming men are haunted men.
Stephen Vincent Benet

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.
Stephen Vincent Benet

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp names that never get fat.
Stephen Vincent Benet

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benet

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet

Peter Benenson Quotes

2011-08-02T00:47:00.001-07:00

It's the publicity function of Amnesty that I think has made its name so widely known, not only to readers in the world, but to governments - and that's what matters.
Peter Benenson

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.
Peter Benenson

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for.
Peter Benenson

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.
Peter Benenson

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity.
Peter Benenson

Ruth Benedict Quotes

2011-08-02T00:46:00.000-07:00

A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
Ruth Benedict

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
Ruth Benedict

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
Ruth Benedict

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
Ruth Benedict

I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
Ruth Benedict

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
Ruth Benedict

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Ruth Benedict

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
Ruth Benedict

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Ruth Benedict

Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
Ruth Benedict

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.
Ruth Benedict

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
Ruth Benedict

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
Ruth Benedict

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
Ruth Benedict

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
Ruth Benedict

Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

2011-08-02T00:45:00.000-07:00

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
Pope Benedict XVI

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
Pope Benedict XVI

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
Pope Benedict XVI

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.
Pope Benedict XVI

I leave from where the apostle arrived.
Pope Benedict XVI

I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.
Pope Benedict XVI

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.
Pope Benedict XVI

Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.
Pope Benedict XVI

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.
Pope Benedict XVI

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.
Pope Benedict XVI

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI

Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II.
Pope Benedict XVI

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
Pope Benedict XVI

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.
Pope Benedict XVI

Dirk Benedict Quotes

2011-08-02T00:44:00.000-07:00

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
Dirk Benedict

America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
Dirk Benedict

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
Dirk Benedict

Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.
Dirk Benedict

Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.
Dirk Benedict

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.
Dirk Benedict

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.
Dirk Benedict

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.
Dirk Benedict

From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
Dirk Benedict

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
Dirk Benedict

Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb.
Dirk Benedict

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
Dirk Benedict

Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
Dirk Benedict

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.
Dirk Benedict

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
Dirk Benedict

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime.
Dirk Benedict

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.
Dirk Benedict

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
Dirk Benedict

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.
Dirk Benedict

I never get involved with the ladies I work with.
Dirk Benedict

Brian M. Bendis Quotes

2011-08-02T00:42:00.000-07:00

I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands.
Brian M. Bendis

I never look at things again once they're done.
Brian M. Bendis

The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.
Brian M. Bendis

You're as good as the people you're with.
Brian M. Bendis

Hans Bender Quotes

2011-08-02T00:41:00.002-07:00

Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
Hans Bender

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
Hans Bender

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
Hans Bender

PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction.
Hans Bender

The core of my personality consists of many selves.
Hans Bender

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.
Hans Bender

Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
Hans Bender

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
Hans Bender

Julien Benda Quotes

2011-08-02T00:41:00.001-07:00

All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.
Julien Benda

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
Julien Benda

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
Julien Benda

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
Julien Benda

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.
Julien Benda

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.
Julien Benda

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
Julien Benda

Robert Benchley Quotes

2011-08-02T00:39:00.002-07:00

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
Robert Benchley

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
Robert Benchley

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
Robert Benchley

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
Robert Benchley

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
Robert Benchley

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.
Robert Benchley

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
Robert Benchley

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Robert Benchley

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Robert Benchley

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
Robert Benchley

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Robert Benchley

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
Robert Benchley

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
Robert Benchley

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Robert Benchley

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Robert Benchley

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
Robert Benchley

Peter Benchley Quotes

2011-08-02T00:39:00.001-07:00

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.
Peter Benchley

I dive as much as I can.
Peter Benchley

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.
Peter Benchley

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
Peter Benchley

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.
Peter Benchley

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.
Peter Benchley

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
Peter Benchley

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
Peter Benchley

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
Peter Benchley

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.
Peter Benchley

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
Peter Benchley

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.
Peter Benchley

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Peter Benchley

Johnny Bench Quotes

2011-08-02T00:38:00.001-07:00

A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.
Johnny Bench

I can throw out any man alive.
Johnny Bench

I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living.
Johnny Bench

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
Johnny Bench

So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to.
Johnny Bench

These guys were the best. They were the best at their positions and made playing the game easier. And at the same time it made it so much more enjoyable.
Johnny Bench

They're like sleeping in a soft bed. Easy to get into and hard to get out of.
Johnny Bench

Well, you know, Pudge Rodriguez, obviously is as good as it gets.
Johnny Bench

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.
Johnny Bench

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field.
Johnny Bench

Richie Benaud Quotes

2011-08-02T00:37:00.000-07:00

A cricket ground is a flat piece of earth with some buildings around it.
Richie Benaud

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.
Richie Benaud

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
Richie Benaud

From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.
Richie Benaud

I know it's more five-star now than it was then, but it's still a difficult tour. In the same way as India and Pakistan players find it difficult coming to Australia. People sometimes have difficulty believing that.
Richie Benaud

In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.
Richie Benaud

My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.
Richie Benaud

The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
Richie Benaud

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
Richie Benaud

Pat Benatar Quotes

2011-08-02T00:36:00.000-07:00

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.
Pat Benatar

Love and pain become one in the same in the eyes of a wounded child.
Pat Benatar

Most chick singers say 'if you hurt me, I'll die'... I say, 'if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.'
Pat Benatar

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
Pat Benatar

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.
Pat Benatar

Ludwig Bemelmans Quotes

2011-08-02T00:35:00.000-07:00

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.
Ludwig Bemelmans

I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.
Ludwig Bemelmans

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
Ludwig Bemelmans

To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.
Ludwig Bemelmans

John Belushi Quotes

2011-08-02T00:34:00.000-07:00

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.
John Belushi

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?
John Belushi

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.
John Belushi

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.
John Belushi

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.
John Belushi

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
John Belushi

Work is no longer challenging.
John Belushi

Eleanor Robson Belmont Quotes

2011-08-02T00:28:00.002-07:00

A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes to it immediately.
Eleanor Robson Belmont

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
Eleanor Robson Belmont

Monica Bellucci Quotes

2011-08-02T00:28:00.001-07:00

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
Monica Bellucci

An actor works with their soul and their thought.
Monica Bellucci

Envy is human nature.
Monica Bellucci

I believe that time destroys everything. You can take one beautiful apple, red. After a while, it becomes shrivelled and full of worms, just like what happens to us.
Monica Bellucci

I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful.
Monica Bellucci

I have no idea how I'm perceived in America because I don't live the reality of America.
Monica Bellucci

I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel.
Monica Bellucci

I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
Monica Bellucci

I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.
Monica Bellucci

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.
Monica Bellucci

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
Monica Bellucci

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.
Monica Bellucci

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.
Monica Bellucci

Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
Monica Bellucci

It's not the Jews that killed Christ. It was a political situation, and it was the Romans who killed Jesus. They put Jesus on the cross, not the Jews.
Monica Bellucci

Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.
Monica Bellucci

Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.
Monica Bellucci

Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They take so much place.
Monica Bellucci

Time destroys everything.
Monica Bellucci

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
Monica Bellucci

Saul Bellow Quotes

2011-08-02T00:27:00.001-07:00

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out.
Saul Bellow

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
Saul Bellow

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow

A man is only as good as what he loves.
Saul Bellow

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
Saul Bellow

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
Saul Bellow

Conquered people tend to be witty.
Saul Bellow

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Saul Bellow

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow

Hapiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
Saul Bellow

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow

I'm glad I haven't lived in vain.
Saul Bellow

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
Saul Bellow

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Saul Bellow

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
Saul Bellow

In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California.
Saul Bellow

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Saul Bellow

Hilaire Belloc Quotes

2011-08-02T00:26:00.001-07:00

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
Hilaire Belloc

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
Hilaire Belloc

Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
Hilaire Belloc

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.
Hilaire Belloc

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out.
Hilaire Belloc

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
Hilaire Belloc

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
Hilaire Belloc

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
Hilaire Belloc

It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Hilaire Belloc

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
Hilaire Belloc

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Hilaire Belloc

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
Hilaire Belloc

Money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.
Hilaire Belloc

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.
Hilaire Belloc

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Hilaire Belloc

The grace of God is courtesy.
Hilaire Belloc

Maria Bello Quotes

2011-08-02T00:25:00.000-07:00

I want to do more action adventures and more romantic comedies.
Maria Bello

So many actors wear wigs nowadays. Besides, if someone is hiring me because of how I wear my hair, I don't want to work with them anyway.
Maria Bello

There is always one person on the set who has a lot of anxiety, an actor who is really intense and has to stay in character and holds himself away from the rest of us.
Maria Bello

Melvin Belli Quotes

2011-08-02T00:24:00.002-07:00

A lawyer's performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts.
Melvin Belli

Camilla Belle Quotes

2011-08-02T00:24:00.001-07:00

Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
Camilla Belle

By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.
Camilla Belle

For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
Camilla Belle

I'd taken three years off to live as a normal person, so this was my first time back into it, and it was kind of shocking, but then it was fun.
Camilla Belle

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.
Camilla Belle

It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
Camilla Belle

The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.
Camilla Belle

Joachim du Bellay Quotes

2011-08-02T00:23:00.001-07:00

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.
Joachim du Bellay

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.
Joachim du Bellay

In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
Joachim du Bellay

Edward Bellamy Quotes

2011-08-02T00:22:00.002-07:00

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.
Edward Bellamy

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.
Edward Bellamy

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
Edward Bellamy

Carol Bellamy Quotes

2011-08-02T00:22:00.001-07:00

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.
Carol Bellamy

And most importantly perhaps, children can learn about their rights, share their knowledge with the children of other nations, identify problems with them and establish how they might work together to address them.
Carol Bellamy

By ratifying the Convention, governments become legally bound to implement the rights therein.
Carol Bellamy

Children have in the past and continue to influence policy makers.
Carol Bellamy

Corporate partners help UNICEF fund our programmes for children, advocate with us on their behalf, or facilitate our work through logistical, technical, research or supply support.
Carol Bellamy

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.
Carol Bellamy

Here once again education is crucial, it enables children to be become more aware of their rights and to exercise them in a respectful manner which helps them shape their own future.
Carol Bellamy

I came into a strong organization, and I hope I strengthened it more and expanded its capacity to deal with some of the challenges that might not have seemed as great 10 years ago, such as H.I.V., AIDS and children affected by war.
Carol Bellamy

I think he is an entertainer. I would prefer if he were a performer.
Carol Bellamy

I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.
Carol Bellamy

In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world's children.
Carol Bellamy

In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world's children.
Carol Bellamy

Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
Carol Bellamy

It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
Carol Bellamy

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.
Carol Bellamy

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.
Carol Bellamy

Northern Uganda presents a situation of extraordinary violation of the rights of children.
Carol Bellamy

The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.
Carol Bellamy

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.
Carol Bellamy

Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best interests considered when law and policies are being drafted.
Carol Bellamy

Robert Neelly Bellah Quotes

2011-08-02T00:21:00.001-07:00

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
Robert Neelly Bellah

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
Robert Neelly Bellah

Ahmed Ben Bella Quotes

2011-08-02T00:20:00.000-07:00

Algeria is not breaking up.
Ahmed Ben Bella

Algeria was therefore only the beginning of something that was in development: this is why I say that it's the global capitalist system that finally reacted against us.
Ahmed Ben Bella

Che came in 1963, shortly after I had come to power.
Ahmed Ben Bella

Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.
Ahmed Ben Bella

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
Ahmed Ben Bella

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.
Ahmed Ben Bella

From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so.
Ahmed Ben Bella

I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.
Ahmed Ben Bella

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.
Ahmed Ben Bella

I am not a Marxist, but I place myself resolutely at the left.
Ahmed Ben Bella

I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.
Ahmed Ben Bella

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks.
Ahmed Ben Bella

I think that they participated in something that was not very proper and was very pitiful, not only for the Algerian people, but also for the other people who counted on our support.
Ahmed Ben Bella

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
Ahmed Ben Bella

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.
Ahmed Ben Bella

In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
Ahmed Ben Bella

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.
Ahmed Ben Bella

It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime.
Ahmed Ben Bella

My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation.
Ahmed Ben Bella

Peace does not include a vendetta; there will be neither winners nor losers.
Ahmed Ben Bella

William Bell Quotes

2011-08-02T00:19:00.000-07:00

Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.
William Bell

I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too.
William Bell

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.
William Bell

I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.
William Bell

It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business.
William Bell

Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads.
William Bell

The first song that I wrote was when I was with The Del Rios. I was like 14 years old but I was always putting my thoughts down on paper even before then because it was like an escape - a way of unleashing all the stuff.
William Bell

There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times.
William Bell

We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there.
William Bell

When I came out of service, the first couple of releases didn't really hit so I just took a little hiatus and sat down to see what was happening. I just glued my ears to the radio and then I started writing - the first hit record that came out was "Everybody Loves a Winner."
William Bell

When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.
William Bell

Kristen Bell Quotes

2011-08-02T00:17:00.002-07:00

All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.
Kristen Bell

Detroit, the heart of the country... I grew up on 10 Mile, 2 miles better than 8 Mile.
Kristen Bell

Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you.
Kristen Bell

I can rock out anything. I mean, I can rock out a little 'Time After Time'. I can do a little 'Grease Lightning'. It depends on the mood, but we do go karaoke, my friends and I in Los Angeles, and it's a lot of fun.
Kristen Bell

I don't like staying in hotels. I like to be in my own bed. San Diego as a city is really awesome. The only hard part of it for me is that I'm away from my family and my house. But as far as shooting down there, we get amazing locations, and the crew is really, really stellar down there. They are really fun.
Kristen Bell

I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer.
Kristen Bell

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.
Kristen Bell

I find it almost comforting to count calories, because it makes me conscious of what I'm eating. But on Super Bowl Sunday, I thought, 'Surrender to it. It's nacho time.' Then I ate nothing but Doritos all day.
Kristen Bell

I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts.
Kristen Bell

I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular.
Kristen Bell

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.
Kristen Bell

I have the mouth of a sailor.
Kristen Bell

I love nerds. Comic-Con junkies are the tastemakers of tomorrow. Isn't that funny? The tables have turned.
Kristen Bell

I loved Catholic school. I didn't like being beeped at by old pervs at the gas station because I was wearing a plaid skirt, though. It's like, do you think I'm going to stop and give you my phone number?
Kristen Bell

I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women, as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.
Kristen Bell

I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I'll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It's not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced.
Kristen Bell

I rarely wear clothes when I'm home by myself. I love making breakfast naked. But you've got to make sure the gardener's not coming that day.
Kristen Bell

I'd do pretty much anything to get back on stage. I'd like to develop a new musical. I nearly had a heart attack when I heard that they're developing John Waters' Cry-Baby because that is so amazing and super and wonderful and I wish that I could be involved. But it's not the right time and I understand that. But I hear things like that and I get that little tingle in my stomach.
Kristen Bell

I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con.
Kristen Bell

I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road.
Kristen Bell

John S. Bell Quotes

2011-08-02T00:17:00.001-07:00

It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.
John S. Bell

E. T. Bell Quotes

2011-08-02T00:16:00.000-07:00

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
E. T. Bell

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
E. T. Bell

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
E. T. Bell

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
E. T. Bell

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.
E. T. Bell

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
E. T. Bell

"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
E. T. Bell

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
E. T. Bell

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
E. T. Bell

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
E. T. Bell

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
E. T. Bell

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
E. T. Bell

Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
E. T. Bell

Daniel Bell Quotes

2011-08-02T00:15:00.001-07:00

But in action, one defies one's character.
Daniel Bell

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
Daniel Bell

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.
Daniel Bell

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Daniel Bell

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.
Daniel Bell

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
Daniel Bell

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
Daniel Bell

Cool Papa Bell Quotes

2011-08-02T00:14:00.001-07:00

They used to say, 'If we find a good black player, we'll sign him.' They was lying.
Cool Papa Bell

Clive Bell Quotes

2011-08-02T00:12:00.000-07:00

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
Clive Bell

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
Clive Bell

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
Clive Bell

Comfort came in with the middle classes.
Clive Bell

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
Clive Bell

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
Clive Bell

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.
Clive Bell

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.
Clive Bell

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
Clive Bell

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
Clive Bell

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
Clive Bell

There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
Clive Bell

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
Clive Bell

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.
Clive Bell

Charles Anthon Quotes

2011-07-30T23:32:00.002-07:00

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!
Charles Anthon

I have thus given you a full statement of all that I know respecting the origin of Mormonism.
Charles Anthon

George Antheil Quotes

2011-07-30T23:32:00.001-07:00

It's only when you suddenly stop perspiring that your forearms go dull.
George Antheil

Adam Ant Quotes

2011-07-30T23:31:00.001-07:00

Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
Adam Ant

I didn't lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?
Adam Ant

I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
Adam Ant

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
Adam Ant

I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.
Adam Ant

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
Adam Ant

Christopher Anstey Quotes

2011-07-30T23:30:00.002-07:00

Where studious of ease, I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.
Christopher Anstey

David Ansen Quotes

2011-07-30T23:30:00.001-07:00

We are the movies and the movies are us.
David Ansen

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
David Ansen

Phil Anselmo Quotes

2011-07-30T23:29:00.001-07:00

And it seems to be today, image is a real important thing once again.
Phil Anselmo

I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.
Phil Anselmo

I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.
Phil Anselmo

It seems like if you are not painted up special way or have some tailor made outfit to put on to go out on stage... I don't know... there's too much of it out there.
Phil Anselmo

There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick.
Phil Anselmo

This is the band I always wanted to be in.
Phil Anselmo

To me, I'm for a band whose forefront is the music.
Phil Anselmo

We definitely have a hardcore following.
Phil Anselmo

With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like.
Phil Anselmo

Jean Anouilh Quotes

2011-07-30T23:28:00.000-07:00

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
Jean Anouilh

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
Jean Anouilh

All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
Jean Anouilh

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
Jean Anouilh

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
Jean Anouilh

Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh

Every man thinks god is on his side.
Jean Anouilh

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
Jean Anouilh

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
Jean Anouilh

I like reality. It tastes like bread.
Jean Anouilh

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Jean Anouilh

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.
Jean Anouilh

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
Jean Anouilh

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
Jean Anouilh

Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
Jean Anouilh

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh

Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
Jean Anouilh

Nothing is irreparable in politics.
Jean Anouilh

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
Jean Anouilh

One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Jean Anouilh

Francesca Annis Quotes

2011-07-30T23:27:00.002-07:00

As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.
Francesca Annis

Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
Francesca Annis

Having children with someone is the real bond.
Francesca Annis

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
Francesca Annis

I am not a fanatic about anything. I do what I can do when I've got the time.
Francesca Annis

I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
Francesca Annis

I am pretty self-indulgent.
Francesca Annis

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
Francesca Annis

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
Francesca Annis

I couldn't imagine playing someone young now; it would be so boring.
Francesca Annis

I didn't choose to be an actress.
Francesca Annis

I do find acting cathartic.
Francesca Annis

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.
Francesca Annis

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.
Francesca Annis

I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking over someone's shoulder and thinking: That's familiar... oh my God, it's me.
Francesca Annis

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
Francesca Annis

I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour.
Francesca Annis

I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
Francesca Annis

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
Francesca Annis

I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
Francesca Annis

Walter Annenberg Quotes

2011-07-30T23:27:00.001-07:00

Accomplish something every day of your life.
Walter Annenberg

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.
Walter Annenberg

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.
Walter Annenberg

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
Walter Annenberg

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
Walter Annenberg

Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
Walter Annenberg

Few things are as essential as education.
Walter Annenberg

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
Walter Annenberg

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
Walter Annenberg

I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
Walter Annenberg

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
Walter Annenberg

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.
Walter Annenberg

I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
Walter Annenberg

I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
Walter Annenberg

I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?
Walter Annenberg

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.
Walter Annenberg

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.
Walter Annenberg

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.
Walter Annenberg

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
Walter Annenberg

Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.
Walter Annenberg

Princess Anne Quotes

2011-07-30T23:26:00.001-07:00

Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out.
Princess Anne

I know my own heart to be entirely English.
Princess Anne

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
Princess Anne

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.
Princess Anne

Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes

2011-07-30T23:24:00.000-07:00

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

The financing of my films has always been international.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
Jean-Jacques Annaud

Kojo Annan Quotes

2011-07-30T23:23:00.002-07:00

I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.
Kojo Annan

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.
Kojo Annan

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.
Kojo Annan

My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.
Kojo Annan

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?
Kojo Annan

Kofi Annan Quotes

2011-07-30T23:23:00.001-07:00

Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.
Kofi Annan

Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Kofi Annan

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Kofi Annan

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
Kofi Annan

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
Kofi Annan

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.
Kofi Annan

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
Kofi Annan

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?
Kofi Annan

In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.
Kofi Annan

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
Kofi Annan

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.
Kofi Annan

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
Kofi Annan

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
Kofi Annan

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.
Kofi Annan

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Kofi Annan

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
Kofi Annan

National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.
Kofi Annan

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
Kofi Annan

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
Kofi Annan

Keren Ann Quotes

2011-07-30T23:21:00.002-07:00

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.
Keren Ann

I spend a lot of time writing in New York.
Keren Ann

I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.
Keren Ann

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.
Keren Ann

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.
Keren Ann

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.
Keren Ann

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.
Keren Ann

I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.
Keren Ann

If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.
Keren Ann

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.
Keren Ann

It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.
Keren Ann

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.
Keren Ann

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.
Keren Ann

Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.
Keren Ann

When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.
Keren Ann

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.
Keren Ann

Paul Anka Quotes

2011-07-30T23:21:00.001-07:00

Canada is a good country to be from. It has a gentler slower pace - it lends perspective.
Paul Anka

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.
Paul Anka

I believe in criticism.
Paul Anka

I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.
Paul Anka

I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.
Paul Anka

I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.
Paul Anka

My demographic of people have been very supportive.
Paul Anka

The thing is to be able to outlast the trends.
Paul Anka

John Aniston Quotes

2011-07-30T23:20:00.001-07:00

In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.
John Aniston

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.
John Aniston

Why thrust your kid into that? You try to protect them from all the bad people out there.
John Aniston

Jennifer Aniston Quotes

2011-07-30T23:19:00.000-07:00

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.
Jennifer Aniston

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.
Jennifer Aniston

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.
Jennifer Aniston

I always say don't make plans, make options.
Jennifer Aniston

I am trying to think of the last time that I just said, 'What the hell!' and did something crazy.
Jennifer Aniston

I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.
Jennifer Aniston

I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies.
Jennifer Aniston

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
Jennifer Aniston

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.
Jennifer Aniston

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Jennifer Aniston

I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.
Jennifer Aniston

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
Jennifer Aniston

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jennifer Aniston

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.
Jennifer Aniston

If somebody ever wished to be me for a day, they'd be the most pissed-off person once they got here. They would be, like, in hell.
Jennifer Aniston

In a man, I look for a friend, someone who's equal, with whom I'm comfortable.
Jennifer Aniston

Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.
Jennifer Aniston

Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.
Jennifer Aniston

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.
Jennifer Aniston

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.
Jennifer Aniston

Sharron Angle Quotes

2011-07-30T23:18:00.001-07:00

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.
Sharron Angle

And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.
Sharron Angle

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.
Sharron Angle

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.
Sharron Angle

I'm pro responsible choice. You know, there is choice to abstain, choice to do contraception. There are all kinds of good choices.
Sharron Angle

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.
Sharron Angle

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
Sharron Angle

They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.
Sharron Angle

You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.
Sharron Angle

You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn't matter what party you're in. When you call your children and you say 'How are you?' - and what you are really asking is, 'Do you still have your job? And are you able to make the mortgage payment?', That resonates across the state, not across party lines.
Sharron Angle

You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things.
Sharron Angle

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.
Sharron Angle

Kurt Angle Quotes

2011-07-30T23:17:00.001-07:00

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.
Kurt Angle

There are many young Americans that are very distant from our political process.
Kurt Angle

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You dont' boo me.
Kurt Angle

Gennaro Angiulo Quotes

2011-07-30T23:16:00.002-07:00

I wouldn't be in a legitimate business for all the money in the world.
Gennaro Angiulo

When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya.
Gennaro Angiulo

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.
Gennaro Angiulo

Kenneth Anger Quotes

2011-07-30T23:16:00.001-07:00

I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
Kenneth Anger

I've made several films that haven't been shown.
Kenneth Anger

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.
Kenneth Anger

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.
Kenneth Anger

Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.
Kenneth Anger

The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.
Kenneth Anger

Maya Angelou Quotes

2011-07-30T23:15:00.000-07:00

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.
Maya Angelou

All great achievements require time.
Maya Angelou

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Maya Angelou

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya Angelou

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou

Effective action is always unjust.
Maya Angelou

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
Maya Angelou

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou

I believe that every person is born with talent.
Maya Angelou

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
Maya Angelou

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou

Roger Angell Quotes

2011-07-30T23:14:00.002-07:00

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
Roger Angell

I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs.
Roger Angell

Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.
Roger Angell

The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.
Roger Angell

Norman Angell Quotes

2011-07-30T23:14:00.001-07:00

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
Norman Angell

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.
Norman Angell

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
Norman Angell

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
Norman Angell

Barbara de Angelis Quotes

2011-07-30T23:13:00.001-07:00

A man's brain has a more difficult time shifting from thinking to feeling than a women's brain does.
Barbara de Angelis

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
Barbara de Angelis

I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
Barbara de Angelis

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Barbara de Angelis

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
Barbara de Angelis

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara de Angelis

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
Barbara de Angelis

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara de Angelis

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Barbara de Angelis

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara de Angelis

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
Barbara de Angelis

Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
Barbara de Angelis

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
Barbara de Angelis

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Barbara de Angelis

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
Barbara de Angelis

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara de Angelis

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Barbara de Angelis

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
Barbara de Angelis

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
Barbara de Angelis

Phil Angelides Quotes

2011-07-30T23:12:00.002-07:00

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.
Phil Angelides

Fra Angelico Quotes

2011-07-30T23:12:00.001-07:00

He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.
Fra Angelico

Primo Angeli Quotes

2011-07-30T23:10:00.000-07:00

A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique.
Primo Angeli

It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.
Primo Angeli

The talent for discovering the unique and marketable characteristics of a product and service is a designer's most valuable asset.
Primo Angeli

Victoria de los Angeles Quotes

2011-07-30T22:43:00.000-07:00

After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
Victoria de los Angeles

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.
Victoria de los Angeles

And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
Victoria de los Angeles

But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
Victoria de los Angeles

But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
Victoria de los Angeles

But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.
Victoria de los Angeles

I don't like traditions, I am very personal, very independent, I don't like intimate ladies, I mean in German lieder there's a lot of copy, a lot of imitation, a lot of tradition, and this I have put it aside.
Victoria de los Angeles

I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
Victoria de los Angeles

I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.
Victoria de los Angeles

In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
Victoria de los Angeles

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
Victoria de los Angeles

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.
Victoria de los Angeles

So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.
Victoria de los Angeles

This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
Victoria de los Angeles

To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.
Victoria de los Angeles

Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
Victoria de los Angeles

With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.
Victoria de los Angeles

Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.
Victoria de los Angeles

Joaquin Andujar Quotes

2011-07-30T22:42:00.000-07:00

I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.
Joaquin Andujar

I win or I die.
Joaquin Andujar

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'
Joaquin Andujar

You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.
Joaquin Andujar

Yuri Andropov Quotes

2011-07-30T22:41:00.002-07:00

Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants.
Yuri Andropov

Ethel Percy Andrus Quotes

2011-07-30T22:41:00.001-07:00

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
Ethel Percy Andrus

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
Ethel Percy Andrus

Ivo Andric Quotes

2011-07-30T22:40:00.001-07:00

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
Ivo Andric

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.
Ivo Andric

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
Ivo Andric

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.
Ivo Andric

Sadness is also a kind of defence.
Ivo Andric

Searching for what I need, and I don't even know precisely what that is, I was going from a man to a man, and I saw that all of them together have less than me who has nothing, and that I left to each of them a bit of that what I don't have and I've been searching for.
Ivo Andric

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
Ivo Andric

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.
Ivo Andric

When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
Ivo Andric

Virginia C. Andrews Quotes

2011-07-30T22:39:00.001-07:00

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
Virginia C. Andrews

Virginia C. Andrews Quotes

2011-07-30T22:38:00.001-07:00

Naveen Andrews Quotes

2011-07-30T22:37:00.002-07:00

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.
Naveen Andrews

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
Naveen Andrews

Let's just say I was really bad. Now I have grown into myself. I have changed.
Naveen Andrews

Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
Naveen Andrews

Julie Andrews Quotes

2011-07-30T22:37:00.001-07:00

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.
Julie Andrews

Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.
Julie Andrews

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it.
Julie Andrews

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.
Julie Andrews

I am an optimistic lady.
Julie Andrews

I am very proud to be British. I'm very conscious of carrying my country with me wherever I go. I feel I need to represent it well.
Julie Andrews

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.
Julie Andrews

I hate the word wholesome.
Julie Andrews

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.
Julie Andrews

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.
Julie Andrews

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.
Julie Andrews

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.
Julie Andrews

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.
Julie Andrews

I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.
Julie Andrews

I've got a good right hook.
Julie Andrews

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
Julie Andrews

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.
Julie Andrews

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
Julie Andrews

Richard Burton rang me up once and said, Do you know you're my only leading lady I've never slept with? I said, Well, please don't tell everybody, it's the worst image.
Julie Andrews

Elizabeth Andrews

2011-07-30T22:35:00.000-07:00

Bloody hell, Ma'am, what's he doing in here?
Elizabeth Andrews

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