William Rose Benet Quotes

#1. If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.

Robin Wright

#2. Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.

William Rose Benet

#3. I will love you truly forever and a day!

William Rose Benet

#4. I didn't stand for anything. If I wanted to matter - even just to myself - I would have to be less free, by deciding to choose in some kind of definite way.

David Foster Wallace

#5. Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

William Rose Benet

#6. A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

Clarence Stein

#7. You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.

William Rose Benet

#8. Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

Albert Pinkham Ryder

#9. I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water.

Augusten Burroughs

#10. Life is noisy. Reading is quiet time for the soul.

William Rose Benet

#11. I won't give my heart to another girl until God shows me it's my wife.

Eric Ludy

#12. And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

William Rose Benet

#13. the time is always right to do the right thing

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.

Melanie Lynskey

#15. Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

Noam Chomsky

#16. The pursuit of personal happiness and the production of healthy children are two radically contrasting projects, which love maliciously confuses us into thinking of as one for a requisite number of years. We should not be surprised by marriages between people who would never have been friends

Alain De Botton

#17. Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new. Give us more to see ...

Stephen Sondheim

#18. With every job I've gotten, I've bought myself something. When 'Glee' was picked up, I rented a piano for the year. For smaller victories, I'll go to dinner with a friend, or go for a walk and think about it all. It's important to say to yourself, Today was a good day.

Dianna Agron

#19. I know depression is anger turned inward.

M.J. Rose

#20. Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!

Friedrich Nietzsche