Face Benjamin Zephaniah Quotes

#1. It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities in the illuminating light of your own mission than to have your activities formed by the impressions and expectations of others.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#2. Power is very much like the wind. It comes and goes; no one really owns it. People are foolish enough to think they possess power. You don't possess power, power possesses you. Power uses you.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Everything written, if it has anything in it, will offend someone, and if the mere taking of offence was to amount to a licence to kill the offender, well the world would be sadly underpopulated of novelists, columnists, bloggers, and the writers of editorials.

Rex Murphy

#4. Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

Walter Savage Landor

#5. Dee penned my name into the lyrics of her first single, "Open Road Summer.

Emery Lord

#6. Twelve for 23 ... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

Dick Vitale

#7. The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Herbert Hoover

#8. It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it

Charles Darwin

#9. When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.

Del Shannon