Top 100 Quotes About Benton
#1. You know, said Sergeant Benton, I'll never understand the Doctor. He's always so sorry in the end for the horrible creatures we come across. It isn't human. You're forgetting, said the Brigadier, he isn't.
Malcolm Hulke
#2. War,' chanted Benton, 'war strangely is happiness to Diane.
Racter
#3. Her tears and my soul, they live parallel lives. Run, ache, burn. Repeat. Her tears and my soul, they live parallel lives. - BENTON JAMES KESSLER
Colleen Hoover
#4. I am translucent, aquatic. Drifting, aimless. She is an anchor, sinking in my sea. - BENTON JAMES KESSLER
Colleen Hoover
#5. My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.
Hugh Hefner
#6. My flaws are draped in her mercy Revered by her false perception And with her lips upon my skin She will undress my deception. - BENTON JAMES KESSLER
Colleen Hoover
#8. He gave me a timid smile. "The trouble is," he said, "that nobody paints our times. Nobody paints the age we live in." I murmured something about Benton, and John Steuart Curry. "No," he said, "we'll never find out what the age is like, by peering in a landscape." I
Robert Nathan
#10. Another maternal insight --- you always dislike about your children that which you dislike about yourself because you understand the danger about that trait. ~ Dorothea Benton Frank, The Hurricane Sisters, p. 115.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#11. Let's be honest, the world's always been a scary place with very little charm. I try to brush it off as I've brushed off the flu, as I brushed off the death of my father when I was young, as I've brushed off so much since Benton has known me.
Patricia Cornwell
#12. Benton had a strong interest in helping to ensure that Warren's home life wasn't greatly disturbed: his wife was Cornish, and that morning Warren had arrived with six Cornish pasties of remarkable flavour and succulence.
P.D. James
#13. When Robert Benton was doing the movie 'In the Still of the Night,' I'd choreographed the auction scene and supplied the paintings and had a bit part - I was bidding against Meryl Streep.
Arne Glimcher
#14. The [Gila River area is] so utterly desolate, desert, and Godforsaken, that Kit Carson says a wolf could not make his living upon it." | U.S. Representative THOMAS HART BENTON addressing the house of representatives, June 26, 1854
Margot Mifflin
#15. In my vocal, I think you can hear something of my earlier times when I'd sing in subway halls for the echo and perform doo-wop on street corners. But I had a lot of influences, too - singers like Sam Cooke, Brook Benton and Roy Hamilton.
Ben E. King
#16. Professionally speaking, the proudest moment was when I booked the 'Human Stain.' I knew it had Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise on board, and the director Robert Benton was an academy award winner for 'Kramer vs Kramer.'
Wentworth Miller
#17. The abuse of power, Benton says. It all comes back to that. We want to be like God. If we can't create, we'll destroy, and once we've done it, once is not enough.
Patricia Cornwell
#18. The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.
Jennifer Granholm
#19. I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#20. The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.
Marjorie Benton Cooke
#21. I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible.
Robert Benton
#22. I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?
Dorothea Benton Frank
#23. What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?
Dorothea Benton Frank
#24. Until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.
Marjorie Benton Cooke
#26. After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?
William Benton Clulow
#27. My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#28. School prepares you for the real world ... which also bites.
Jim Benton
#29. It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.
William Benton Clulow
#31. My next film is always shaped by the last one ... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture.
Robert Benton
#32. For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.
William Benton Clulow
#33. I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#34. go, we only got three horses. The other three
W.R. Benton
#35. The most important thing I learned is that to be truly happy, you've got to pay attention to that stupid inner voice we all have. It knows what you need and will drive you shit crazy until you listen to it.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#36. There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.
Marjorie Benton Cooke
#37. She says that on the day you stop believing in love you may as will lie down and die. I think she may be right.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#38. Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.
William Benton Clulow
#39. 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
#40. The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.
Benton MacKaye
#41. Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.
William Benton Clulow
#42. One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.
Brook Benton
#44. Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles.
One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and heal.
One cannot live without the other, each is the other's hope, meaning & strength.
Gemma B. Benton
#46. I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.
Robert Benton
#47. What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#49. A rule in life I don't break is - I never take sides between two people. There are two stories and somewhere in the middle lies the truth.
E.M. Benton
#50. What he didn't know was that he always would and that in all those important moments that were yet to come to pass in his life, there would be a searing wound. Over time the wound would grow smaller, but it would never disappear.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#51. Dreams made your eyes sparkle over the possibilities of doing something new and exciting. Reality made the rest of you break a sweat in panic. I was terrified.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#53. They say you only have so many breaths in your lifetime, and I think disappointments might be the same.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#54. never underestimate your dumbness!!
Jim Benton
#55. A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.
Benton MacKaye
#56. The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August.
God, middle age is an unending insult.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#57. My tongue had probably earned about 20 million Frequent Flyer Miles to rush my immortal impudent soul to a special torture chamber in purgatory
Dorothea Benton Frank
#58. An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value to society in terms of aesthetics and recreation
Tim Benton
#59. Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.
Benton MacKaye
#60. When you start running from trouble? It confers with the devil on how to find you twice as fast.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#61. A good woman's heart knows no bounds. And love is the most powerful and wondrous gift in the world. Yes, it is.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#62. Meant to be together? Are you listening to yourself? This isn't one of your fairy tales, Fallon. This is real life, and in the real world you have to bust your ass for the happy ever after!
Colleen Hoover
#63. The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.
Marjorie Benton Cooke
#64. If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.
William Benton Clulow
#65. The Devil danced all over the place in his beautiful eyes. You never knew what kind of surprise he had for you, just to make you laugh.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#66. Rural cops spent much of their time interacting with rural folk who felt a strong attachment to their guns. Rural cops consequently possessed a reasonable distrust
Ren Benton
#67. He giggled like a puppy being tickled by a kitten wearing a duckling costume.
Jim Benton
#68. We were an imperfect family. I knew that. But at last we were on each other's side, dug in with a new and more profound commitment. Our happiness was hard won, it was ours and I was determined to keep us whole.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#70. The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.
William Benton Clulow
#71. The ancient practice of allowing land to remain fallow for a season is now exploded, and a succession of different crops found preferable. The case is similar with regard to the understanding, which is more relieved by change of study than by total inactivity.
William Benton Clulow
#72. Actually, I came here because of Skipper." "That was awfully nice! How's he doing? I'm going
Dorothea Benton Frank
#73. One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.
Benton MacKaye
#74. There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.
William Benton Clulow
#75. I know what that does to a man, to walk the earth with the burden of his sin on his back. It poisons all he touches.
Lori Benton
#76. Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.
William Benton Clulow
#77. I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats. And if we didn't wear fur coats, those little animals would never have been born!
Barbi Benton
#78. Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#79. The man who says I can't is the man that says I wont
Benton Marcum
#80. And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!
Dorothea Benton Frank
#82. As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#83. Keep going until something stops you, then keep going.
D.A. Benton
#84. Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.
Robert Benton
#85. There are three things: to walk, to see, and to see what you see.
Benton MacKaye
#86. You remember to trust in Heavenly Father. Life is a blessing, but it is also a testing. Take the one as you do the other and trust Him who allows all. Trust what Creator is doing, though we cannot understand it or see the full path.
Lori Benton
#87. Sure, she'd come across one or two things she couldn't explain. Cold spots, disembodied voices, Lady Gaga. Unfortunately, Bigfoot was not one of them.
Stephanie Julian
#88. You listen to me," he told her, his voice a low, brusque rumble. "I'd rather take corn mush from your hand - morning, noon, and night - than chicken and apple pie from any other. And that's the plain truth.
Lori Benton
#89. 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
#92. Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.
William Benton Clulow
#93. If you want to know why all writers are a little crazy read 'The Midnight Disease' by Alice W. Flaherty. She talks about the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain. I know what's wrong with me!
Dorothea Benton Frank
#94. In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.
Robert Benton
#95. My pants cut the cheese. Let one fly. Baked a batch of brownies.
Jim Benton
#96. I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#97. The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.
William Benton Clulow
#98. David Harper was Hollywood handsome but he had a Conan the Barbarian temper to go with his looks.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#99. Life is a struggle, I would tell him. Some days are better than others, and every person's life is bittersweet, filled with joy and pain.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#100. Love makes the world go 'round but I'm pretty sure money has to do with it, too.
Jim Benton
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