Playthell Benjamin Quotes

#1. Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

Margaret Mitchell

#2. Teddy laughed, heard the sound of it carry off on the sweep of night air and dissolve in the distant surf, as if it had never been, as if the island and the sea and the salt took what you thought you had and ...

Dennis Lehane

#3. I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

Marton Csokas

#4. Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

Eleanor Roosevelt

#5. Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.

Maria Montessori

#6. Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.

William Shakespeare

#7. Jeff Ross has a new show on Comedy Central where he roasts the news. It'll be perfect for people who find Jon Stewart too handsome and funny.

Seth Green

#8. You were cute in a tutu." Desiree scowled. "Why don't you ever forget shit?" She turned on her heel without waiting for an answer. "Should've been an elephant instead of a leopard.

Nalini Singh

#9. I could have
you arrested!" Which is to
say: "I could take your
body.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#10. Jewish Warsaw, which was roughly a third of Warsaw proper, was a city of rabbis and swindlers, capitalists and poets; but, most of all, it was a city of talkers. There were so many ideas in the air you could get an education simply by breathing deeply. (p. 206)

Rebecca Goldstein

#11. I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous.

Alexandre Aja

#12. A man without trust might as well be dead.

Robert Jordan

#13. We normally think if you're going to lend someone money, you should get some reward for doing this. In Europe, it's a tax!

Mohamed El-Erian

#14. When we seek to change others to suit our desires we engage in folly, but when we seek to improve ourselves, as an example to others we can change the world.

Christopher Earle

#15. I think that there's absolutely no point trying to force your body to be anything than what it is. I think that when you see people who are really pushing themselves to terrifying lengths to achieve what is perceived as being beautiful today, then that's just terrifying, it's really terrifying.

Keira Knightley