Benni Quotes

#1. The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy ... he's got a lot of medical round him

Paul Merson

#2. stick at it like a benni addict

Jack Kerouac

#3. I can see myself staying at Blackburn for the rest of my career - unless I move to another club at some stage

Benni McCarthy

#4. Destiny cuts
the cake of love,
Three slices to some,
To others, a crumb.

Stefano Benni

#5. I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.

Diane Kruger

#6. I don't want to go to Portsmouth or any other club that has no ambitions.

Benni McCarthy

#7. If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.

Stefano Benni

#8. The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.

Rick Warren

#9. [T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

Stefano Benni

#10. The winter was blasting its cold winds of dire portent into the tender face of springtime.

Stefano Benni

#11. A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

Ayn Rand

#12. Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home good intentions; if only we had a pipe wrench to tighten hearts in everlasting love; a saw that we could use to make a clean cut with the past!

Stefano Benni

#13. Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

Stefano Benni

#14. [M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however. These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however.

Stefano Benni

#15. When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

Stefano Benni

#16. I am a kid who played university cricket, so to be around international cricket is a blessing.

Harsha Bhogle

#17. Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

Aldous Huxley

#18. That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

Stefano Benni

#19. For three years Albert would stay huddled in his den during the day and see almost no one, content to be alone with his books. From time to time, unshaved and sloppily dressed, he would appear in the street to take a meal or perform some errand. Then it was back to his room for more study.

Robert Cwiklik