John Benfield Quotes

#1. In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

Elena Ferrante

#2. The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine.

John Benfield

#3. In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

Joseph Beuys

#4. [T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.

Theodore Dalrymple

#5. Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.

Damon Galgut

#6. So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. I am a corpse bored with my own funeral. I live like a gypsy, only with less gold and maybe more curses.

Pete Wentz

#8. Officials are highly educated but one-sided; in his own department an official can grasp whole trains of thought from a single word, but let him have something from another department explained to him ... he won't understand a word of it.

Franz Kafka

#9. The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.

Simon Blackburn

#10. For some a gift is only a symbol of their own superior position, which makes it not a gift at all.

J.D. Robb

#11. Why say no when you could say yes!

The Paper Doll

#12. I doubt anyone on their deathbed has said "boy, I wish I had taken more shots of Jagermeister." Get

Jason Flamm

#13. I think with any movie, the more you know, it loses some of its power.

Peyton Reed

#14. I'm thinking about that afternoon you came to the empty restaurant, that day after the Alchemist. You were so alone." He pauses. I was. I'd never felt so alone. "Nobody saw it, but I did. I always see you. And you came in that door and came up to me and everything was new.

Carolyn Crane

#15. Life is enough of everything.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear,
by which I mean pajamas.

Holland Cotter