Benglis Artforum Quotes & Sayings

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble. — John Lahr

And there were no secrets between them anymore, save one. G wanted to confess it to his lady before they commenced with the very special hug. — Cynthia Hand

One has thieving intention himself, otherwise no one can ever steal from him; no one can ever rob him. One's own intention does the stealing; the thief is simply instrumental (nimit) in that. Really, the account is one's own. — Dada Bhagwan

I see myself in [the] tradition of encounter and witness - a witness that sees the photograph as evidence. — Susan Meiselas

I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number. — Bill Gates

In another place was a vast array of idols - Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy. — H.G.Wells

What I have is a general and very personal knowledge of food. I know which food I enjoy. I know which food I hate. I know how food makes me feel — Jim Gaffigan

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own. — Bayard Taylor

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers. — Thomas Hobbes

If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. — Arthur Capper

Not all scars are visible. Regardless, they are usually painful when you first get them. But with time they might fade or they can remain and become a beautiful reminder ... that you survived. — Jose N. Harris

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity. — Colin Powell

Nobody really labeled themselves, unless they wanted to escape someone else doing it for them. — Claire Contreras

When the need is so great, no matter how much love you pour into a bowl, it will never be full. Or sometimes it is damaged, and the love all runs out through the hole in the bottom. — Elizabeth Chadwick