Benayoun Quotes & Sayings

Save the gerund and screw the whale. — Tom Stoppard

Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them. — Peter Drucker

I Am Primate

I was once taught, that I am a soul in a body.
I once believed I was separate from the earth.
A stranger in a strange land,
a sinner in need of a Savior.
But, isn't this my home? This beautiful world?
Isn't this my form?
These hands, these eyes, this touch?
Am I to believe I have violated a rule,
just by being born?
Who claims this right to judge,
and on what authority do you stand?
The truth screams out from my cells.
I am not the imagination of a God,
I am a voice in the earth,
I am that which you deny!
The earth is my home and the stars my destiny.
I will touch the planets through
the hands of my children
. . . not the will of your ghost!
I am a voice in the evolutionary continuum
and I claim the right to be alive,
without your story.
For I Am Human, I Am Proud,
and I AM . . . PRIMATE! — Christopher Zzenn Loren

To me, the persistence of my grandfather's rituals meant that he was unchanged, running on discipline and continuance and stoicism. I didn't notice, and didn't realize, that the rituals themselves were changing, that there was a difference between the rituals of comfort and the preventive rituals that come at the end of life. — Tea Obreht

The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality. — Dane DeHaan

But all our differences hardly measure up to the values we all hold in common ... — Joe Biden

[On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart. — Peggy Guggenheim

She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Over the next two months Eisenhower labored — Stephen E. Ambrose

It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil. — N.K. Jemisin

Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom. — Ryan Miller