Ben Raines Quotes & Sayings

I have this thing that, once I finish a movie, I never see it again. — Alfonso Cuaron

The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships. — Anthony Robbins

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest. — Charles Caleb Colton

'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime ... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics. — Ian McKellen

Their anger is not experienced as a psychological reality but is seen through an ideology that distorts black women's lived experiences. — Melissa V. Harris-Perry

I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me. — H. Raven Rose

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden. — Thomas Sowell

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness. — Deb Caletti

Get a grip, Haskell. Find a target, blast it, cook up an alibi. What's complicated about that? — James A. Hetley

I have another proof that we're going to have food in Heaven! And man did eat angel's food.-Manna! So angels can eat food! — David Berg

In Sweeden every city looks the same. I've been to sixteen cities, and every single city is the same! The same cobblestone, the same McDonalds, the same everything. Everything was designed by the same guy. They must have saved a lot of money when they designed all the cities. — Pablo Francisco

The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A dream is only as powerful as the dreamer. — Bianca Frazier

It is in the nature of poetry that it speaks to the heart as well as the head. — Malcolm Guite

This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia. Utopia is always somewhere else. That's the very definition of Utopia. — Brad Warner