Top 100 Bench Quotes

#1. Some other brown stuff that might not be mud into her tangled hair. All around, villagers wandered with their baskets of brightly colored eggs, looking for the perfect hiding places. Ruth Zardo sat on the bench in the middle of the green tossing

Louise Penny

Bench Quotes #2894
#2. I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

Kobe Bryant

Bench Quotes #6852
#3. If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.

Casey Stengel

Bench Quotes #8788
#4. A bench in the street can be a good writer because all kind of material comes onto it like a heavy rain!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Bench Quotes #10390
#5. She knew that alexander was sitting on the bench by the house slightly behind her, and that he was watching her. he was doing that more and more often. Watching her as he smoked. And smoked. And smoked.

Paullina Simons

Bench Quotes #17732
#6. Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.

Shaquille O'Neal

Bench Quotes #27735
#7. Sir Edward Grey belongs to the class which, through heredity and tradition, expects to find a place on the magisterial bench to sit in judgement upon and above their fellow men, before they ever have any opportunity to make themselves acquainted with the tasks and trials of mankind.

Max Hastings

Bench Quotes #30339
#8. Ragnor's important business was probably getting together to write a burn book with Raphael. Magnus could see them now, sharing a bench and scribbling happily away about Magnus's stupid hair.

Cassandra Clare

Bench Quotes #32940
#9. I survived the whole day guarding Lissa, and you guys said I did a good job. Then, I get back here and meet my downfall in the form of a bench.

Richelle Mead

Bench Quotes #36270
#10. Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.

Roger Penske

Bench Quotes #40497
#11. Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

Jean Anouilh

Bench Quotes #42082
#12. We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.

P. J. O'Rourke

Bench Quotes #42285
#13. I was taken down by a bench. -Rose Hathaway

Richelle Mead

Bench Quotes #46281
#14. The unfortunate 8075 hadn't survived his assault, splintering apart, fragments of its casing skittering across the bench. The battery within had split along its plane, revealing something as out-of-place as a missile in a bathtub.

A. Ashley Straker

Bench Quotes #53975
#15. You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

Keith Hernandez

Bench Quotes #63550
#16. Mr. Bucket was the only person in the family with a job. He worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long at a bench and screwed the little caps onto the tops of the tubes of toothpaste after the tubes had been filled.

Roald Dahl

Bench Quotes #70298
#17. There's no justice for the poor man. Money buys justice, and I have no doubt there's a great deal of money in that man's pockets to buy the finest judge on the bench.

Mercedes Lackey

Bench Quotes #73499
#18. With one are-you-going-to-live glance at Pigpen, he rolls his eyes, and I sit with Dad on the bench.

Katie McGarry

Bench Quotes #87500
#19. I've always had an a$$-to-the-brain theory. When a player's a$$ gets put on the bench, a message goes straight to the brain saying, Get me off of here.

Bobby Knight

Bench Quotes #102072
#20. I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

Frank Lampard

Bench Quotes #105947
#21. She'd arrived a self-sufficient city woman, and now she was covered in snow, sitting on a bench beside a crazy person, and she had a duck on her lap. Who was nuts now?

Louise Penny

Bench Quotes #115772
#22. I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

Tony Hillerman

Bench Quotes #116542
#23. The judge, for instance, who signed the warrant for Charlie's arrest that last time he went into remand is still on the bench.

Anna Funder

Bench Quotes #119882
#24. It is pretty tough for a goalie when you look at it. You're always the last line of defense. If you let a goal in, you can't go to the bench and hide between the guys or anything

Kirk McLean

Bench Quotes #123629
#25. If sex were baseball, I was still on the bench. The only action my bases had seen was courtesy of my own curious hands, and even then, I'd never achieved a homerun.

Leisa Rayven

Bench Quotes #125970
#26. Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.

Paavo Haavikko

Bench Quotes #128961
#27. The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.

Vance Havner

Bench Quotes #129875
#28. An image of her shackled to my bench, peeled gingerroot inserted in her ass so she can't clench her buttocks, comes to mind, followed by judicious use of a belt or strap.

E.L. James

Bench Quotes #129926
#29. And please don't say 'blue,' or I might go absolutely mad right here on this bench.

Patrick Rothfuss

Bench Quotes #142454
#30. You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.

Israelmore Ayivor

Bench Quotes #143039
#31. Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.

Bruce Hoffman

Bench Quotes #146199
#32. And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?

Stephen Breyer

Bench Quotes #152810
#33. As a player, remember that the bench is not a prison, but an extension of the first group. Concentrate on the quality of your play when you do get into the game. If you play 20 minutes, play the best 20 you can possibly play.

Stan Albeck

Bench Quotes #153179
#34. We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench

Samuel Beckett

Bench Quotes #155778
#35. I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

Marvin Hamlisch

Bench Quotes #156442
#36. I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking.

Sirena Huang

Bench Quotes #157536
#37. She sat down on a wooden bench that was bolted to the floor ... in case some high school hooligan like herself decided to make off with it, she supposed.

Kimberly Derting

Bench Quotes #160229
#38. It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

George Bernard Shaw

Bench Quotes #176072
#39. I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Bench Quotes #182573
#40. Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.

Mike Myers

Bench Quotes #183334
#41. I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

Judge Mills Lane

Bench Quotes #183859
#42. Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.

J.R. Ward

Bench Quotes #185421
#43. My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

Earl Weaver

Bench Quotes #185441
#44. Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.

Paul Weyrich

Bench Quotes #185616
#45. All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.

Vita Sackville-West

Bench Quotes #186898
#46. He picked her up and sank onto the warm oven-bench with her in his arms. He was gentle. His breath was the winter wind, but his flesh was warm, and his heart beat under her hand.

Katherine Arden

Bench Quotes #187550
#47. When I'm by myself, I'm not threatening at all. I get many more invitations than I would if I were traveling with anyone else, especially with a man. But I'm rarely alone. I sit on a park bench and I'm not alone because I pick a park bench where somebody interesting is sitting.

Rita Gelman

Bench Quotes #195305
#48. A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.

Johnny Bench

Bench Quotes #196930
#49. Everywhere was filled with painful, jarring reminders of what I'd lost: an elderly couple sitting on a bench, gnarly, arthritic fingers interlaced; a handsome young man in a baseball cap whispering something in his pregnant wife's ear, his arm draped protectively around her shoulders.

Catherine Sanderson

Bench Quotes #208405
#50. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

Johnny Bench

Bench Quotes #213686
#51. It's easy to motivate a client when they are sitting on a bench right in front of you, but the real challenge for a trainer is to have that motivation exist even when you are not around.

Jessie Pavelka

Bench Quotes #219502
#52. As long as we can get redress in the courts, as long as the laws shall be honestly administered, as long as honesty and intelligence sit upon the bench, as long as intelligence sits in the chairs of jurors, this country will stand, the law will be enforced, and the law will be respected.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Bench Quotes #231852
#53. It seemed as though the secret of the universe had miraculously appeared right here at our feet, as though God's notebook had opened under our bench.

Yoko Ogawa

Bench Quotes #238717
#54. When I come off the bench, I'm looking to add energy, and then I play defense and rebound. Also, at the end of the game, I have the experience to go out there and help us win.

Sue Wicks

Bench Quotes #241195
#55. He's convinced that you're a psycho," I explained, as I reached the bench. "He has the list narrowed down to either a double agent or a serial killer.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Bench Quotes #244363
#56. Brain, maybe you should take a brief vacation. Take two aspirin and sit on the bench. Someone just smacked a line drive up the middle of the heart.

Allan Dare Pearce

Bench Quotes #248003
#57. Stay strong," said the detective. "They respect strength."
What the hell was she supposed to do? Break a chair? Bench-press a Volvo?

Kathy Lyons

Bench Quotes #251863
#58. I've always liked the romance of sitting on a bench that so many other people sat on before me.

Corey Ann Haydu

Bench Quotes #258746
#59. I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now.

Ryan Reynolds

Bench Quotes #260550
#60. I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I hope, in my years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and the courage to remain constant in the service of that demand.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Bench Quotes #262420
#61. Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.

Cinda Williams Chima

Bench Quotes #267545
#62. Ally McCoist will always get you a goal, whether he's playing or on the bench.

Mark Hateley

Bench Quotes #276207
#63. And opposite the bench, the dock, divided by a partition, with the women to the left and the men to the right, as it is on the stairs or the block in polite society.

Henry Lawson

Bench Quotes #276479
#64. For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.

Larry Lucchino

Bench Quotes #288903
#65. I sank down on the bench, stupefied, stunned by this profusion of beings without origin: everywhere blossomings, hatchings out, my ears buzzed with existence, my very flesh throbbed and opened, abandoned itself to the universal burgeoning.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Bench Quotes #292044
#66. Johnny Bench
befriended me my first year in the big leagues. He took me under his wing during my first All-Star Game and we've been friends ever since. He's one guy I've tried to emulate and I'll always compare myself to Johnny (Bench).

Gary Carter

Bench Quotes #301121
#67. I didn't try to pull away; things that can bench-press Toyotas don't let go.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Bench Quotes #308030
#68. What do you think you're doing?" ... "What does it look like, Blake? I'm obviously having wild sex on a cement bench with my best friend's boyfriend fifteen feet from a yard full of people.

Talia Vance

Bench Quotes #310062
#69. I like your heart, Beth. When I found you on this bench, you opened it and swallowed
me.

Angela Morrison

Bench Quotes #316248
#70. America deserves a nominee who reveres the law, not one whose service on the bench is conditioned on political promises.

John Cornyn

Bench Quotes #316602
#71. Come! Come sit by me. It's a nice bench. Nice and lovely on the butt."
"You're drunk."
"Yeah, and you're ugly, but do I complain about it? No! Because I don't complain about things that I can't change. That's called intelligence.

Sara Wolf

Bench Quotes #322991
#72. Don't push it." Cormac said as he looked back to Burrom. "You'll go under again one day, and I'll find out where you're buried and plant a goddamn park bench right over your ass."
"You wouldn't!"
"With a colorful flower box full of daises right beside it.

Donna Augustine

Bench Quotes #328058
#73. Spotted Park Bench
I am a park bench.
Ordinary words cannot
express my thoughts on birds.

J. Patrick Lewis

Bench Quotes #332947
#74. Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.

Steven Wright

Bench Quotes #342889
#75. You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's what I got the most out of this year. I know what other coaches like to do.

Isaiah Thomas

Bench Quotes #347162
#76. This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them.

Mario Lemieux

Bench Quotes #351278
#77. And a bunch of the other guys on the football team would be teaching kids how to bench-press or tackle or rape or whatever it was that football players knew how to do well.

Melissa Kantor

Bench Quotes #351324
#78. I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

Sparky Anderson

Bench Quotes #356482
#79. For me, I'd rather be the inventive one, and if something doesn't work, I'll go back to the workshop, put it on the bench, and pound on it for awhile.

Janet Fitch

Bench Quotes #358751
#80. There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.

Mickey Mantle

Bench Quotes #359567
#81. We bought good footballers. But many haven't got it, that football is a running and fighting sport. Against Bayern every team outdoes itself. And we do too little to counter that ... We need a couple of attack dogs. Sometimes I sit on the bench and think, 'Man, is this a friendly match?'

Otto Rehhagel

Bench Quotes #367846
#82. I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism.

Ronald Reagan

Bench Quotes #375463
#83. They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.

Haruki Murakami

Bench Quotes #376413
#84. I mean no disrespect to the gentlemen of the bench, but it is no secret that our system of justice, praised throughout Europe for its severity and its swiftness, is a terrible and fearful thing, and no man, guilty or innocent, wishes to stand before it.

David Liss

Bench Quotes #376481
#85. I stay away from straight bench; all the work I do is with dumbbells to protect my rotator cuffs. Then I'll do a bunch of different pull moves like inverted rows before finishing with some simple internal or external rotations with a band to strengthen my shoulder.

Andrew Luck

Bench Quotes #398399
#86. After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.

Mickey Mantle

Bench Quotes #402728
#87. I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

Joe Manganiello

Bench Quotes #403385
#88. I found the bench to be the greatest ally when I had to make individuals comply with what was best for the team

John Wooden

Bench Quotes #403814
#89. My dad owned a propane company in Oklahoma.

Johnny Bench

Bench Quotes #406012
#90. Far be in from me to dictate how you should assuage your guilt. Do you have a lot of it?"
She bit his good shoulder. "You're about to find out."
She toppled them both off the bench and onto the mat. "Well, ouch. I take it guilt doesn't bring out your gentler side.

J.D. Robb

Bench Quotes #407799
#91. Hugo reached down and plucked a spare twig from the ground and set it on the bench between them. "This," he said, "is a wall, and I will not cross it.

Courtney Milan

Bench Quotes #417381
#92. As they passed through the waiting room, the statue of Hygeia was sitting on a bench, pouring acid on her face and singing "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," while her golden snake gnawed at her foot.

Rick Riordan

Bench Quotes #423122
#93. People ask me if I'd permit fancy things, like dunks. Well, if they did dunk, it was with no fancy flair. No behind-the-back dribbles or passes unless necessary. If it was for show, you were on the bench.

John Wooden

Bench Quotes #427691
#94. Seats on the [Court] bench are not reserved for causes or interests. They're given to those who will uphold the rule of law so long as the nominee is well-qualified to interpret and apply the law.

Sam Brownback

Bench Quotes #442249
#95. When lifting weights, nothing feels better than achieving a high point on the bench press with no help from your spotter.

Robert Cheeke

Bench Quotes #446587
#96. Cryptography [without system integrity] is like investing in an armored car to carry money between a customer living in a cardboard box and a person doing business on a park bench.

Gene Spafford

Bench Quotes #451036
#97. The two Weres circle each other, a bench between them. Suddenly, Cody lurched at Diego, grabbing him by the shirt, spinning him and slamming him into the wall causing bricks from the building to fall.

Kris Owens-Norris

Bench Quotes #451419
#98. He thought: that's certainly how it starts. One day a person puts his legs up on a bench, then night comes and he falls asleep. That's how it happens that one fine day a person joins the tramps and turns into one of them.

Milan Kundera

Bench Quotes #454171
#99. I was taken down by a bench.

Richelle Mead

Bench Quotes #455857
#100. There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

Jane Harman

Bench Quotes #456506

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