Benchers Quotes

#1. For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence convention,' permit freer voting, strengthen the role of back benchers and committees, do away with ineffectual 'take note' debates, restructure question period, and so on.

Preston Manning

#2. Back-benchers and Last-rankers in School; they have determined hands, powerful minds and courage to turn the mountain of opportunities in their favour, grind challenges and mould desires and dreams into Grand Realities.

Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

#3. The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.

James D. Watson

#4. I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board.

Sophia Bush

#5. But you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Darren Shan

#6. Black and white is salt and pepper of colors, for life tastes bland without them.

Vikrmn

#7. Her heart was beating a marathon somewhere in the region of her throat, her skin felt hot and stretched taut over her bones, and she was damp in places she was tolerably certain unmarried gentlewomen were not supposed to be damp in.

Gail Carriger

#8. She sees how you diminish her solitude, and, more meaningfully, she sees you seeing, which sparks in her that oddest of desires an I can have for a you, the desire that you be less lonely.

Mohsin Hamid

#9. Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.

Barbara Mikulski

#10. An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.

John Flanagan

#11. I never think I have to prove something.

Carine Roitfeld

#12. To give everyone a house and garden is very difficult in urban areas.

Jeremy Corbyn

#13. The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

Sophocles

#14. But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening ... doesn't mean it won't.

Dan Brown

#15. I am asked why I live in the green mountains; I smile but reply not, for my heart is at rest. The flowing waters carry the image of the peach blossoms far, far away; there is an earth, there is a heaven, unknown to men.

Li Bai

#16. I'm a pretty quiet person.

Mayim Bialik

#17. At this point in my career, it doesn't bother me much that I'm probably hopelessly typecast. I like to work, and horror films definitely keep me working.

Donald Pleasence