Benita Quotes & Sayings

The construction of masculinity and femininity was driven by the need to sell products. — Benita Roth

Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back. — Benita Valente

I do not desire power, but rather to submit to the will of Elamm'. — Benita J. Prins

I wanted to tell you that it's my birthday on Thursday and I would have wanted you to give me the gift of your guts on the floor, one last time,
to see if you still had it in you. — Lucas Regazzi

Never say that anything is hopeless, Tristal, until it has irreparably failed. And always remember that Elamm' may perform any action, though it may seem impossible to you. — Benita J. Prins

The journey was thrilling. Inspiring. Exalting. And, in the end, it did not change a thing. "You would never have believed me if I'd told you," said Sheikh al-Khammas. "You had to learn the truth for yourself: the real Holy City is within. — Michael Golding

Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as long as people think you live in New York." — Benita Valente

Would you have me forever carry hate for one who is dead? — Benita J. Prins

Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year ... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering ... for me ... And I loved it. — Benita Valente

Across the board you can run up against 10 athletes where we're the same physically. They've done the same kind of training; they are in the same kind of shape. But the one that wins is the person who really believes they can win. — Benita Johnson

She was so slender and delicate, at times I thought she might blow away. She was so beautiful, my Wynna. Do you know, Tristal, I used to believe she might be a Valintara? She used to lie in the grass and watch me work, and sometimes I couldn't even see her when I looked her way. She would wear green dresses, just the colour of this flower, with a grass-green girdle about her waist, and her flaxen hair caught up in a green ribbon. Will you tell the King I name this flower for Wynna, Tristal? But don't pick any; bring him here and show him, but don't let him pick any either. Let these Wynnas live; leave them all green and growing where they belong. — Benita J. Prins

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. — C. Northcote Parkinson

The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue. — Ken Mehlman

We should celebrate more often politicians who stand up and say things that are unpopular. — Philip Davies

The more you know about Christ the less will you be satisfied with superficial views of Him. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

All my work will explode inside my body, each fragment of my anatomy will acquire a life of its own, outside mine, Humberto won't exist, only these monsters, the despot who imprisoned me at La Rinconada to force me to invent him, Ines's honey complexion, Brigida's death, Iris Mateluna's hysterical pregnancy, the saintly girl who was never beatified, Humberto Penaloza's father pointing out Don Jeronimo dressed up to go to the Jockey Club, and your benign, kind hand, Mother Benita, that does not and will not let go of mine, and your attention fixed on these words of a mute, and your rosaries, the Casa's La Rinconada as it once was, as it is now, as it was afterwards, the escape, the crime, all of it alive in my brain, Peta Ponce's prism refracting and confusing everything and creating simultaneous and contradictory planes, everything without ever reaching paper, because I always hear voices and laughter enveloping and tying me up. — Jose Donoso

I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt. — Camille Paglia

It's a wise man who isn't afraid to make a fool of himself every now and then. — Benita J. Prins

This society of 'creatures that once were men' had one fine characteristic - no one of them endeavored to make out that he was better than the others, nor compelled the others to acknowledge his superiority. — Maxim Gorky

see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment. — Colson Whitehead

The Harmonica is the world's best-selling musical instrument. You're welcome. — Bob Dylan

When a boy I could never bear to read any Poetry whatever without disgust and reluctance," he said.32 He — Benita Eisler