Bennett Quotes

We neither of us perform to strangers. ~ Jane Austen

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. ~ Arnold Bennett

She was different and the same, and I had known her insofar as you can really know anyone, which is to say not much. ~ Bennett Madison

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics. ~ Bennett Miller

Illusions must be put to death. That is the cruelty of growing up. ~ Marguerite Bennett

The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature. ~ Alan Bennett

We can sit here and pretend to be normal. But I'm still a sick, needy masochist who uses you as a stand in for my drugs, and you're still a sadist. ~ Natalie Bennett

It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom. ~ Dick Bennett

I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli. ~ Kat Dahlia

I was terrified of what that meant
but as she took my hand in hers, kissing it softly before entwining our fingers, I realized it didn't matter. I'd passed the point of no return and whether she wanted me or not, I was hers.
"Je suis à toi. ~ Christina Lauren

What does this program/team need this week? ~ Dick Bennett

Zombies are the walking dead, only it isn't their bodies that have died but their hearts, their souls. I know they exist because I have become one. ~ Cindy C. Bennett

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will. ~ William Bennett

Leadership is awakening others to the possibilities and inspiring them to attain them. ~ Bob Bennett

I rarely acquire any enthusiasm for the opposite sex outside of being drunk. ~ Claire-Louise Bennett

have to close my eyes each time I see them. And each time I close my eyes, I imagine their naked bodies doing sinful acts ~ Liv Bennett

What would happen if everyone on Earth stood as close to each other as they could and jumped, everyone landing on the ground at the same instant? - Thomas Bennett (and many others) ~ Randall Munroe

Tony Bennett said to me, "Wow, your talent is amazing." Maybe he's a bore, maybe he's a jerk, but when he said that to me, I didn't need anything more than that. ~ Elaine Stritch

When he makes mistakes, he's so focused on righting the wrong, and so overconfident about his ability to fix it all, that he loses sight of the big picture and ends up making things worse. ~ Jenn Bennett

You understand, of course, that I can only get you access. ~ Edward Bennett Williams

Sometimes a banana with coffee is nice. It ought not to be too ripe - in fact there should be a definite remainder of green along the stalk, and if there isn't, forget about it. Though admittedly that is easier said than done. Apples an be forgotten about, but not bananas, not really. They don't in fact take at all well to being forgotten about. They wizen and stink of putrid and go almost black. ~ Claire-Louise Bennett

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets. ~ Alan Bennett

Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do. ~ Bo Bennett

But I do go in for books. I love to own books. Though I read few books twice, I have filled every shelf in my house with books, have had more shelves made and filled those too. My books surround me like a cocoon. When I run my finger along the backs of my books they feel like the ribcage of an old familiar lover. Visit my shelves and you will learn much about me. ~ Joe Bennett

I love your hips and the way they fit perfectly in my hands, your nose gives you character, your thighs... Jesus, I can't even think about them without getting a hard-on, and your eyes make my heart race like a schoolboy with his first crush." - Jax ~ A.J. Bennett

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies. ~ William Bennett

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important. ~ Roy T. Bennett

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids. ~ Bo Bennett

In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas. ~ Arnold Bennett

What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett.
"My guess is a new acronym," he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B. ~ Connie Willis

Eisenhower has been much criticized for his failure publicly to endorse the Court's decision. But he felt that doing so would set an undesirable precedent. If a president endorsed decisions he agreed with, might he feel compelled to oppose decisions he did not agree with? And what would that do to the rule of law? "The Supreme Court has spoken and I am sworn to uphold ... the constitutional processes ... I will obey."3 ~ William J. Bennett

I like to look around me and see all the books, all the possibilities. I don't ever want to be the smartest person in the room. As long as I have books around me, I won't be. ~ Martellus Bennett

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. ~ Bennett Cerf

niceness was something anyone could be, whether they meant it or not. But goodness was another thing altogether. ~ Brit Bennett

People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?' ~ Davy Jones

Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met. ~ Amy Poehler

Why would i date him i like someone else" ... "I'm the only someone else you know ~ Cindy C. Bennett

The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart ideals as well as knowledge, to cultivate in students the ability to distinguish the true and good from their counterfeits and the wisdom to prefer the former to the latter. ~ William J. Bennett

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

...the danger of developing a policy of rush, of being gradually more and more obsessed by what one has to do next. In this way one may come to exist as in a prison, and one's life may cease to be one's own. One may take the dog out for a walk at eight o'clock, and meditate the whole time on the fact that one must begin to read at a quarter to nine, and that one must not be late.
And the occasional deliberate breaking of one's programme will not help to mend matters. The evil springs not from persisting without elasticity in what one has attempted, but from originally attempting too much, from filling one's programme till it runs over. The only cure is to reconstitute the programme, and to attempt less. ~ Arnold Bennett

A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road. ~ Bo Bennett

A true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements. ~ Arnold Bennett

But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury's, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play. ~ Alan Bennett

I had forgotten how awful it was to be a woman alone
the leering glances, the catcalls, the offers of help which you dared not accept for fear of incurring a sexual debt. The awful sense of vulnerability. No wonder I had gone from man to man and always wound up married. How could I have left Bennett? How could I have forgotten? ~ Erica Jong

Pitry regrets not defining the phrase "other side of the hill" more precisely. As he marches along the wandering paths, it increasingly feels like this hill keeps producing other sides out of nowhere for him, none of which bear any sign of civilization. At ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

Don't let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up; don't let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow. ~ Roy Bennett

The public is a great actuality, like war. If you are a creative and creating artist, you cannot ignore it, though it can ignore you. ~ Arnold Bennett

The prime minister did not wholly believe in the past or in any lessons that might be drawn from it. ~ Alan Bennett

Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being. ~ Arnold Bennett

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16. ~ Philip Seymour Hoffman

Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste. ~ Arnold Bennett

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

You overcome it by hard work. By not giving up. By striving for something better. You learn to forgive and move on, and you learn from your pain. You don't let it control you, and you certainly don't hide from it. ~ Sawyer Bennett

To sparkle is to shine but to dazzle is divine! ~ C.L. Bennett

And if my Sea od Tranquility were real, it would be this place, here, with him.
I don't say anything right away, because I just want one minute to look at him before I give him my last secret.
And then I tell him.
Your garage. ~ Katja Millay

she imagined her life caught between his teeth, her trusting him not to bite. Two ~ Brit Bennett

If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't. ~ Bill Bennett

Dude… my money is on Callie. I think her sunshine is going to banish your thunderstorm in like a nanosecond. ~ Sawyer Bennett

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. ~ William Bennett

There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner. ~ Arnold Bennett

If you can kill it in the bedroom, chances are you can kill it in the kitchen, too - and studies have shown that men who help out more with the chores have more sex with their wives (really!). We know, gender roles run deep, which is why women in hetero relationships still end up doing the vast majority of the domestic work despite being the breadwinners in two-thirds of American homes, leaving them burned out, resentful, and, nope, not really in the mood. But it doesn't have to be this way - and, in fact, we might want to borrow a page from our LGBTQ sisters and brothers (or those who identify as neither): research shows they split chores, decisions, and finances more evenly ~ Jessica Bennett

Oh baby ... I'm going to teach you how good it's going to feel to be fucked into submission by an uncivilized man. ~ Sawyer Bennett

So, I'm a playwright. In Minneapolis. Which means that I find myself operating in a pretty lefty crowd, most of the time. And most of my energy goes towards arguing with that, and musing about how I really fucking can't stand Democrats. So I was startled to be reminded of a fact that I'd almost entirely forgotten: I really fucking can't stand Republicans. ~ Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

If you listen to your body and your intuition, they'll guide you well. There are countless ways to develop listening skills. Some helpful and classic practices include: dancing and drumming, sitting and walking meditations, t'ai chi or chi kung, painting or journal writing. It's important to find what works for you, and even the time of day or night that works best for you. Whatever you choose, the commonality is that they all offer an opportunity for quieting the mind, and slowing down enough to be
present and able to listen for inner guidance - and guidance from the plants themselves. ~ Robin Rose Bennett

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, I have noticed that marriage is the death of politeness between a man and a woman. ~ Arnold Bennett

Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes. ~ Roy Bennett

Dear Camryn,

I never wanted it to be this way. I wanted to tell you these things myself, but I was afraid. I was afraid that if I told you out loud that I loved you, that what we had together would die with me. The truth is that I knew in Kansas that you were the one. I've loved you since that day when I first looked up into your eyes as you glared down at me from over the top of that bus seat. Maybe I didn't know it then, but I knew something had happened to me in that moment and I could never let you go.

I have never lived the way I lived during my short time with you. For the first time in my life, I've felt whole, alive, free. You were the missing piece of my soul, the breath in my lungs, the blood in my veins. I think that if past lives are real then we have been lovers in every single one of them. I've known you for a short time, but I feel like I've known you forever.

I want you to know that even in death I'll always remember you. I'll always love you. I wish that things could've turned out differently. I thought of you many nights on the road. I stared up at the ceiling in the motels and pictured what our life might be like together if I had lived. I even got all mushy and thought of you in a wedding dress and even with a mini me in your belly. You know, I always heard that sex is great when you're pregnant. ;-)

But I'm sorry that I had to leave you, Camryn. I'm so sorry…I wish the story of Orpheus and Eurydice was real ~ J.A. Redmerski

Q: How can anyone seriously position the 'Apollo 11' reflector at a minimum distance of only 40ft/12m away from a rocket engine that they knew was going to scatter vast clouds of lunar dust over a wide area at take off? A location that, by their own admission, would become so badly covered in dust and debris that the reflector would be rendered virtually useless? ~ Mary D. Bennett

Might as well nerd it up all the way. ~ Sawyer Bennett

Dear Lord, thank you for introducing me to my two favorite men in the world ... Ben and Jerry. I hope you aren't offended by this threesome. ~ Sawyer Bennett

What Bill O'Reilly says means nothing. What Stephen Bennett says means nothing. What God says means everything. ~ Stephen Bennett

Still, to be urged to write and to be urged to publish are two different things and nobody so far was urging her to do the latter. ~ Alan Bennett

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

Remember: white men constitute just 31 percent of the American population. There is no situation in which they should be constituting the majority of the room. ~ Jessica Bennett

The only one who understands me, My Lord, my heart. ~ Ami Riechman-Bennett

Everybody starts out as strangers. ~ J.A. Redmerski

She closed her eyes, trying to remember the photos that had hung on the walls. She had passed these pictures every day, but now she only remembered them vaguely--her parents on their wedding day, her mother in a garden, her family at Knott's Berry Farm. How had she not memorized them? Or maybe she had once but she was beginning to forget. Did the house smell different because her mother's scent was gone? Or had she just forgotten how her mother smelled? ~ Brit Bennett

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president? ~ Edward Bennett Williams

See, I'm a great believer in the power of negative thought. And in an age of affirmation, of self-help and self-love, of the rebirth of wide-eyed idealism and the power of positive thinking - I'm happy to be a champion of skepticism and doubt. That night, I rediscovered my role, my reason, and my rage. ~ Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood. ~ Haley Bennett

F they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line! ~ Alan Bennett

The guy with Bennett let go of his elbow and started patting his pockets. He came out with the switchblade, now closed up again, and a Sig Sauer automatic, a P226, I thought, favored by Special Forces everywhere. ~ Lee Child

There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts. ~ Alan Bennett

If you only do it for money, that's only what you get. ~ Stephen Bennett

Finally, Bennett: 1; Chloe: 0 ~ Christina Lauren

I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up. ~ Alan Bennett

Look, Sara. The way Andrew treated you was unconscionable. We all saw that, and I regret not speaking up on your behalf. But you have the choice to decide how you grow from it. If you're going to think every man is like him, you don't deserve Max. Max isn't that guy. ~ Christina Lauren

Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart. ~ Roy Bennett

I just want to see you come apart.
I wanted to tell her that she was witnessing it now, and in all honesty she'd been watching it happen for weeks. ~ Christina Lauren

[The Truth Seeker is] Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform, progression, free education and whatever tends to elevate and emancipate the human race.
Opposed to: priestcraft, ecclesiasticism, dogmas, creeds, false theology, superstition, bigotry, ignorance, monopolies, aristocracies, privileged classes, tyranny, oppression, and everything that degrades or burdens mankind mentally or physically. ~ De Robigne Mortimer Bennett

The minute you think you're safe is the same minute you're fucked. ~ Bennett Madison

You are wrong," says the man. His voice is low and resonant. The metal walls of the dome, all the knives and swords and spears, all seem to vibrate with each of his words. "Your rulers and their propaganda have sold you this watered-down conceit of war, of a warrior yoked to the whims of civilization. Yet for all their self-professed civility, your rulers will gladly spend a soldier's life to better aid their posturing, to keep the cost of a crude good low. They will send the children of others off to die and only think upon it later to grandly and loudly memorialize them, lauding their great sacrifice. Civilization is but the adoption of this cowardly method of murder. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

Killing echoes inside you. It never goes away. Maybe some who have killed don't know that they've lost something, but they have. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

Pop was initially ignored as a moneymaker by the recording industry. In the seventies they were still relying on Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett for their big hits. You know, most of the budget for the record companies in those days went to the classical department - and those were big budget albums. ~ Tony Visconti

I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you've ever seen. I think perhaps that's why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners. ~ Alan Bennett

You're the world to me," I whisper onto
her lips. "I hope you never forget that."
"I'll never forget," she whispers back.. "But if I ever do, for
whatever reason, I hope you'll always find a way to remind me."
... "Always. ~ J.A. Redmerski

I'm just a
" I looked at Yoshiro. "An unimpressive girl who doesn't want to battle ghosts and kill wraiths. There's only three things I want. To find my family. Dispel Neos. And to
" I stopped suddenly, and didn't know where to look.
"Yes?" Yoshiro said. "The third thing?"
"To be with me," Bennett said. ~ Lee Nichols

I tried to find a word for it in my thesaurus, but there isn't one. At least, not one that doesn't belittle the plight of POWs and victims of famine. I guess we can just call it beyond suck. -Lulu Dark ~ Bennett Madison

I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity or anybody, you know. I just think of myself as doing something that I love to do. ~ Jimmy Bennett

If you wait and watch, she's found, things so often reveal themselves, despite your adversary's best efforts. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett