Benjamina Gunn Quotes & Sayings

When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions. — Henry Tamburin

What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being merely a de facto reality. The culture has been different. And secondly, the percentage of the world's population for whom such ascent was possible has gone up. But even though it has grown up, meritocratic ascent remains very much the attribute of a minority. — Immanuel Wallerstein

Everyone could have been pre-eminent at something, if they had been aware of their best quality. — Baltasar Gracian

I played it for my bride, and one day you will play for yours. — Cassandra Clare

Freedom isn't just something you have for the sake of having, you have to want something else first and then want the freedom to fight for it. — Max Brooks

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire

Before my acting took off, I drove a truck for an inventory company throughout the northeast, but my favorite non-acting job was working in the box office at the Public Theater. — Dorian Missick

The level of the Pacific was not twenty feet higher than that of the Atlantic, as had been the accepted view for centuries. Sea level was sea level, the same on both sides. The difference was in the size of their tides. (The tides on the Pacific are tremendous, eighteen to twenty feet, while on the Caribbean there is little or no tide, barely more than a foot. When Balboa stood at last on the Pacific shore, he had seen no rush of lordly breakers, but an ugly brown mud flat reaching away for a mile and more, because he had arrived when the tide was out.) — David McCullough