Benaudio Quotes & Sayings

We newspaper readers all have our pet vexations. Somewhere in one of those sections is the column we anxiously turn to for the sole purpose of disagreeing with the columnist. Volubly. — Barbara Kingsolver

In music, you feel a connection to the voice and think about the person behind it. In art that's secondary. — Marilyn Manson

This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love. — Henri Nouwen

My brush-strokes start in nothing and they end in nothing, and in-between you find the image. — Karel Appel

The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill. — Noam Chomsky

I've inspected your profile. You are not stupid. Misguided, idealistic, naive, certainly, but not stupid. You must know how societies work. You must at least have an inkling. They work on force, power and coercion. People don't behave themselves because they're nice. That's the liberal fallacy. People behave themselves because if they don't they'll be punished. All this is known. It isn't even debatable. Civilisation after civilisation, society after society, species after species, all show the same pattern. Society is control: control is reward and punishment. Reward is being allowed to partake of the fruits of that society and, as a general but not unbreakable rule, not being punished without cause. — Anonymous

There is something that is unexplainable, which no amount of money can buy. — Preeti Shenoy

Jazz is an Uncle Tom word. They should stop using that word for selling. I told George Wein the other day that he should stop using it. — Miles Davis

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition. — Jasper Fforde

It's sad that he doesn't know why I didn't respond to his seedy nightclub-owner gestures; it's sad that I end up convincing myself somehow that the man capable of making them is a significant and valuable figure in my life. — Nick Hornby