Benay Venuta Quotes & Sayings

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right. — Erich Von Stroheim

He imagined them sitting somewhere, just enjoying each other's company, her head on his chest, his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become. — Tim LaHaye

I believe you!" Miss Ellen nodded. "Mark my words, Mr. Meredith, that man is going to fight somebody yet. He's ACHING to. He is going to set the world on fire." "If — L.M. Montgomery

Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart. — Christina Westover

Then she loved him as she would a manifestation of herself, both silenced and wounded in existence, both everything and nothing to eternity. — E.J. Koh

Where you'd be wearing out the knees of your trousers, sir, they just have to go ahead and wear out their knees! — Barbara Kingsolver

Together we raced into the jungle, leaving Justin Bieber far behind. — Peter Lerangis

Everyone had taken their places, when I excused myself to visit the bathroom, and there, in the toilet, was the absolute biggest turd I have ever seen in my life - no toilet paper or anything, just this long and coiled specimen, as thick as a burrito. — David Sedaris

Is beer good for runners? Sure ... if it's the other guy drinking it. — Jim Fixx

As ministers our greatest temptation is toward too many words. They weaken our faith and make us lukewarm. But silence is a sacred discipline, a guard of the Holy Spirit. — Henri Nouwen

Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action. — Pope Gregory I

You learn more about life and people in two hours of war than in four decades of peace. War is dirty, sure, war is senseless, but come on! Civilian life is also senseless, in its sameness and it's reasonableness and because it dulls the instincts. The truth that no one dares speak aloud is that war is a pleasure, The greatest pleasure there is, otherwise it would stop immediately. Once you've tasted it, it's like heroin: you want more. (...) The taste for war, real war, is as natural to man as taste for peace, it's idiotic to want to eliminate it by repeating virtuously that peace is good and war is evil. In fact it's like men and women, yin and yang: you need both. — Emmanuel Carrere

This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something. — Ian Williams