Beneker Artist Quotes & Sayings

In May of 2010, I joined Kevin Systrom, my co-founder, and we created 'Instagram', a mobile social network that today has over 15 million users. — Mike Krieger

To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things, to muff opportunities, to be persistently, organically, preposterously and ingeniously out of place. A hungry schlemiel dreams of a plate of hot soup, and hasn't a spoon. — Maurice Samuel

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been. — John Greenleaf Whittier

A child's imagination can be found in the heart of a good book. — K. Lamb

Happiness came in moments of unpredictable loveliness. — Anthony Marra

And this was the surprising thing about life on Berk. It was a bit like the sea itself. One minute it was all storms, and shipwrecks, and desperate escapes from deadly dragons, the next it was as calm, and peacefully restful, as if these things had never happened. — Cressida Cowell

Once a person is able to achieve true singlemindedness in his practice and smash apart the old nest ... into which he has settled ... Wisdom immediately appears ... and the all-discerning Fivefold Eye opens wide. — Hakuin Ekaku

I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don't want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac. — Stephen King

Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality ... Deaton's book is a magisterial overview of health, income, and wealth from the industrial revolution to the present, taking in countries poor and rich. Not just jargon-free but equation-free, the book is written with a beautifully lucid style ... [P]owerfully argued and convincing. — Michael Marmot

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer. — Andrea Martin

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy. — Bell Hooks

story telling is not a career, it's a calling. I've been writing true and compelling news my entire professional life. My novels are packs of lies — Glen Carter