Myra Bennett Quotes

Honest to God, I hadn't meant to start a bar fight.
"So. You're the famous Jordan Amador." The demon sitting in front of me looked like someone filled a pig bladder with rotten cottage cheese. He overflowed the bar stool with his gelatinous stomach, just barely contained by a white dress shirt and an oversized leather jacket. Acid-washed jeans clung to his stumpy legs and his boots were at least twice the size of mine. His beady black eyes started at my ankles and dragged upward, past my dark jeans, across my black turtleneck sweater, and over the grey duster around me that was two sizes too big.
He finally met my gaze and snorted before continuing. "I was expecting something different. Certainly not a black girl. What's with the name, girlie?"
I shrugged. "My mother was a religious woman."
"Clearly," the demon said, tucking a fat cigar in one corner of his mouth. He stood up and walked over to the pool table beside him where he and five of his lackeys had gathered. Each of them was over six feet tall and were all muscle where he was all fat.
"I could start to examine the literary significance of your name, or I could ask what the hell you're doing in my bar," he said after knocking one of the balls into the left corner pocket.
"Just here to ask a question, that's all. I don't want trouble."
Again, he snorted, but this time smoke shot from his nostrils, which made him look like an albino dragon. "My ass you don't. This place is for fallen ~ Kyoko M.

But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book. ~ Alan Bennett

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

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself. ~ Bo Bennett

The political instinct might wear different clothes in different nations, but underneath the pomp and ceremony it's the same ugliness. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

Don't think of it as the end of the world when your milk spills, think of the beginning of love when you look up into the eyes of the man cleaning it up. ~ Ami Riechman-Bennett

Aren't you just a knight in shining armor? ... Wherever do you keep your horse? And who scoops up the crap it leaves behind? ~ Myra McEntire

If you let a single life event define you then all you need to change things--if you want them to change--is another. ~ Myra McEntire

A classic is a work which gives pleasure to the minority which is intensely and permanently interested in literature. It lives on because the minority, eager to renew the sensation of pleasure, is eternally curious and is therefore engaged in an eternal process of rediscovery. A classic does not survive because of any ethical reason it does not survive because it conforms to certain canons, or because neglect would kill it. It survived because it is a source of pleasure and because the passionate few can no more neglect it then a bee can neglect a flower. The passionate few do not read "the right things" because they are right. That is to put the cart before the horse "the right things" are the right things solely because the passionate few like reading them …

Nobody at all is quite in a position to choose with certainty among modern works. To sift the wheat from the chaff is a process that takes an exceedingly long time. Modern works have to pass before the bar of the taste of successive Generations; whereas, with Classics, which have been through the ordeal, almost the reverse is the case. Your taste has to pass before the bar of the classics. That is the point. If you differ with a classic, it is you who are wrong, and not the book. If you differ with a modern work, you may be wrong or you may be right, but no judge is authoritative to decide your taste is unformed. It needs guidance and it needs authoritative guidance.

Arnold Bennett, Literary Taste: ~ S. I. Hayakawa

The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized. ~ Tony Bennett

She could think of nothing more horrifying than not being able to hide what she wanted. ~ Brit Bennett

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

Your guilt can't do nothin for me, honey. You want to go feel good about feelin bad, you can go on and do it right across the street. ~ Brit Bennett

Life teaches you how to live it - if you live long enough. ~ Tony Bennett

Celebrate this moment because this moment is your life ~ Myra Yadav, Move On

Think before you act and act on what you believe. ~ Bo Bennett

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

In the Code of Canon Law, it states clearly: 'A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession.' I haven't attended confession in well over a decade, and that's less because of dogmatic conflict than it is because of moral cowardice. Deeper than that, maybe I don't want to be forgiven. I want to be punished. Which may be just about the most selfish, egotistical thought I've ever had. I'm sick with self-love. Or self-loathing. After all, they're both essentially the same thing. ~ Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes. ~ Roy Bennett

Cantonese will eat anything in the sky but airplanes, anything in the sea but submarines, and anything with four legs but the table. ~ Amanda Bennett

But you know, sometimes people smile when they're sad. And sometimes girls who look sad are really smiling ~ Jenn Bennett

Jen
"I am sorry that I hurt you. I don't have the words to tell you how sorry I am about that." ... "I would do anything to take that part away. I would do anything to change the hurt I know I caused you. But I can't be sorry about making the bet with Ella and Beth because if I hadn't done that, I would never have gotten to know you. ~ Cindy C. Bennett

A falsehood can run around the world while the truth is still putting its shoes on. ~ William J. Bennett

The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours. ~ Alan Bennett

Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life. ~ Joan Bennett Kennedy

To be loved without a shred of any reserve is a necessity for me. ~ Arnold 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

Why is it," says Vohannes as he walks her to the door, "that whenever we finish our business, it feels like neither of us got what we wanted?" "Perhaps we conduct the wrong sort of business. ~ Robert Jackson 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

I have grown to appreciate the power of believing in myself and of always having faith in myself. I rarely look back; instead, I always look forward. There is so much of life that we miss when we wallow in regret. ~ Tony Bennett

And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim. ~ Bennett Madison

For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more. ~ Frank Sinatra

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

You're my favorite person, you know ... you're my favorite person, too. ~ Jenn Bennett

God works in mysterious ways his wonders to perform, as Reenie used to say. Could it be that Myra is my designated guardian angel? Or is she instead a foretaste of Purgatory? And how do you tell the difference? ~ Margaret Atwood

I mean learning how to spot danger and avoid it in a responsible, careful way. You have to understand your environment. Respect it. ~ Jenn Bennett

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books. ~ Alan Bennett

George thought about it, and asked, "What are, exactly?"
"What am I?"
"Yes. You're not a performer, or just a performer. I've seen vaudevillians do a lot of things before, but I've never seen one pull reflections off glass. So what are you?"
Silenus smirked, sat back in his seat, and pulled his hat down over his eyes. "You're wrong, kid. I am just a performer. I'm just putting on a show you haven't seen before. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

Everything, all of it ... it has been a huge mistake. This is what they need of you, isn't it? This is what idealists and visionaries ask of you - to make their mistakes for them. ~ Robert Jackson Bennett

The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing. ~ Manu Bennett

[talking about the Holocaust]
'But to put something in context is a step towards saying it can be understood and that it can be explained. And if it can be explained that it can be explained away.'
'But this is History. Distance yourselves. Our perspective on the past alters. Looking back, immediately in front of us is dead ground. We don't see it, and because we don't see it this means that there is no period so remote as the recent past. And one of the historian's jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be ... even on the Holocaust. ~ Alan Bennett

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

calling something 'blessed' has become the go-to term for those who want to boast about an accomplishment while pretending to be humble," observes writer Jessica Bennett.[12] ~ John Ortberg

She never felt darker than when she was running, and at the same time, she never felt less black, less anything. ~ Brit Bennett

You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. ~ Arnold Bennett

Two halves of one whole? Do you do drugs? Pot? Acid? What? I asked my brother if he got you fresh from rehab, but I really didn't think it was a possibility until now."
"I don't do drugs, and you aren't crazy. Considering all the other things you've experienced, is it really so impossible to believe? ~ Myra McEntire

Don't use words as cutter, they can tear someone's heart page ~ Myra Yadav