Jim Benton Quotes

#1. You might wanna rethink that, boy. 'Cause if I'm going to get sued for offensively touching you, I'm going to make it worth my while.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#2. How Superheroes Make Money:
- Spider-Man knits sweaters.
- Superman screw the lids on pickle jars.
- Iron Man, as you would suspect, just irons.

Jim Benton

#3. Things Isabella Wouldn't Care About:
- Titanic sinking again.
- Metror striking Earth and landing directly on top of world's most innocent panda.
- Titanic sinking again and this time the entire crew is puppies.

Jim Benton

#4. Homework strongly indicates that the teachers are not doing their jobs well enough during the school day. It's not like they'll let you bring your home stuff to school and work on it there. You can't say, 'I didn't finish sleeping at home, so I have to work on finishing my sleep here.

Jim Benton

#5. It's better to have 100 people love you than to have 1,000,000 people like you.

Brian Chesky

#6. I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

Fredrika Bremer

#7. The following ten throws went a variety of places. I never hit the target, but I was getting closer. Isabella was laughing so hard she wrote "Please stop can't breathe" in the dirt with her finger.

Jim Benton

#8. This happens today: if the investments in the banks fall slightly ... a tragedy ... what can be done? But if people die of hunger, if they have nothing eat, if they have poor health, it does not matter! This is our crisis today!

Pope Francis

#9. Emerson, you just shared your deepest secret with me. I value that. Don't make light of it.
If he wasn't already holding my heart in the palm of his hand, I would have taken it out and given it to him.

Myra McEntire

#10. An inexhaustible imagination is the fountain of youth.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. For the love of all humanity, shake what your mama gave you!

Jim Benton

#12. This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.

Jim Benton

#13. Look to the stars. Aim. Ignite.

Ashley Poston

#14. I'm telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a scary tattoo holding a chain saw. There's just no way to really prepare for that.

Jim Benton

#15. Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.

Jim Benton

#16. Chloe narrowed her eyes. "Americans are all the same. Arrogant, self-entitled trash. You are evidently no exception." She looked away. "Huh, and here I assumed you had the corner on self-entitlement. Then again, I guess it complements that elitist attitude you've got going on.

Emily Albright

#17. I love grilling. Grilling is an incredible way to keep healthy. And you can marinate both with a dry rub and also wet marinades. You can marinate juniper berry or a little bit of olive oil and some citrus and fresh herbs - all of that sort of stuff.

Curtis Stone

#18. The greatest contribution Vietnam is making-right or wrong is beside the point-is that it is developing an ability in the United States to fight a limited war, to go to war without the necessity of arousing the public ire.

Robert McNamara

#19. Mrs. Palmer is a teacher so naturally I assumed she would never do anything good for me.

Jim Benton

#20. Love makes the world go 'round but I'm pretty sure money has to do with it, too.

Jim Benton

#21. My pants cut the cheese. Let one fly. Baked a batch of brownies.

Jim Benton

#22. Standing between these two guys you'd have to be me to know how I'm feelin'!

Buddy Guy

#23. Never in mankind's history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.

James Rozoff

#24. I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.

Jim Benton

#25. The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

Mark Leyner

#26. He giggled like a puppy being tickled by a kitten wearing a duckling costume.

Jim Benton

#27. never underestimate your dumbness!!

Jim Benton

#28. What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

Khalil Gibran

#29. Buy me stuff and I'll be nicer

Jim Benton

#30. Before a nation can be rebuilt, its citizens need to understand how it was destroyed in the first place: how its institutions were undermined, how its language was twisted, how its people were manipulated.

Anne Applebaum

#31. The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way.

Jim Benton

#32. School prepares you for the real world ... which also bites.

Jim Benton