Bennie's Quotes

#1. Das mine!' protested Ava, Bennie's daughter, affirming Alex's recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a plastic skillet away from his own daughter, Cara-Ann, who lurched after it, roaring, 'Mine pot! Mine pot!

Jennifer Egan

#2. Lovecraft story "The Outsider.

Ray Russell

#3. Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent.

Bennie Thompson

#4. My short answer would be that there is no greatest jazz musician of the century. Jazz, like any valid art form, finds its greatness in its expression of the human spirit, and, to me, this can't be reduced to a contest.

Bennie Wallace

#5. Now, we are seeing many of these same companies face the truth about their financial standing. Congress is faced with the challenge of reforming our accounting industry and holding corporate executives responsible for their actions.

Bennie Thompson

#6. Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda.

Bennie Thompson

#7. IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

Lou Gerstner

#8. Why would you give someone the power to tell you that you can't go further when they don't even know how far you've come?

Steve Maraboli

#9. They resumed walking. Alex felt an ache in his eyes and throat. "I don't know what happened to me," he said, shaking his head. "I honestly don't."
Bennie glanced at him, a middle-aged man with chaotic silver hair and thoughtful eyes. "You grew up, Alex," he said, "just like the rest of us.

Jennifer Egan

#10. Where's Bennie?" Nydia said. Bennie was Sierra's best friend, and it wasn't like her to miss a practice. "She at some Super Saiyan dorkmeister overnight camp upstate for the week," Sierra said. "Learning how to make robots or computers or planets or something.

Daniel Jose Older

#11. I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.

Bennie Thompson

#12. Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.

Bennie Thompson

#13. I was thinking that we could spli - " "We're not splitting up," Bennie whispered hoarsely.

Daniel Jose Older

#14. I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

Bennie Thompson

#15. At home I have hunting magazines on my nightstand. I'm an avid hunter. I hunt every chance I get.

Bennie Thompson

#16. I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

Andre Leon Talley

#17. No matter what the situation is like we can't stop believing God

Sunday Adelaja

#18. Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

Bennie Wallace

#19. Bennie has light brown skin and excellent eyes, and he irons his hair in a Mohawk as shiny black as a virgin record.

Jennifer Egan

#20. Unfortunately, WorldCom is not the only company caught up in this kind of accounting scandal. The impact this will have on the general public is yet to be seen.

Bennie Thompson

#21. If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

Bennie Thompson

#22. Ever since the world ended, I don't go out as much

Mose Allison

#23. Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.

Jared Kushner

#24. Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.

Bennie Thompson

#25. When I compare myself and my opponents in other countries in the light of history, I do not fear the verdict on our respective mentalities.

Adolf Hitler

#26. We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.

Bennie Thompson

#27. To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth

David Bennie

#28. Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.

Bennie Thompson

#29. Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program, shore up Social Security, fortify our defense, provide a quality public education and offer economic assistance to rural areas.

Bennie Thompson

#30. While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.

Bennie Thompson

#31. I really love all types of music. I'm really open to that. I really love Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake and some James Taylor and Elton John stuff.

Hailee Steinfeld

#32. Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives

Bennie Thompson

#33. Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.

Bennie Thompson

#34. History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.

Bennie Thompson

#35. Disaster preparedness, whether it's in anticipation of potential weather-related incidents or terrorist incidents requires a skill set that in my mind someone has to be trained for,.

Bennie Thompson

#36. I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.

Bennie Thompson

#37. Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

Bennie Thompson