Benni Quotes & Sayings

[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out. — Stefano Benni

I don't want to go to Portsmouth or any other club that has no ambitions. — Benni McCarthy

The World Cup in 2010 is going to be the most inspirational thing ever to hit the streets in South Africa. For the first time, the World Cup won't just be something that is happening on the other side of the world think about the excitement-the biggest players, from all over the world, will be playing football in a stadium just round the corner from home. — Benni McCarthy

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free? — Bill Gates

The winter was blasting its cold winds of dire portent into the tender face of springtime. — Stefano Benni

The big oxygen thing is out for Benni McCarthy ... he's got a lot of medical round him — Paul Merson

Are all men in disguise except those crying? — Dannie Abse

The human art form is in uniting fruitful activity with a contemplative stance, not one or the other, but always both at the same time. — Richard Rohr

Destiny cuts
the cake of love,
Three slices to some,
To others, a crumb. — Stefano Benni

[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however. These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however. — Stefano Benni

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow. — Joyce Meyer

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible. — Stefano Benni

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive. — Stefano Benni

If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever. — Stefano Benni

And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. — Oscar Wilde

It's the story of my life. You see, the quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead. Now, as you look through this document you'll see that I've underlined all the major decisions I ever made to make the stand out. They're all indexed and cross-referenced. See? All I can suggest is that if you take decisions that are exactly opposite to the sort of decisions that I've taken, then maybe you won't finish up at the end of your life"
she paused, and filled her lungs for a good should
"in a smelly old cave like this! — Douglas Adams

Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home good intentions; if only we had a pipe wrench to tighten hearts in everlasting love; a saw that we could use to make a clean cut with the past! — Stefano Benni

Um ... perhaps I will go with Grandfather, Nilima said. She set down the scissors, looked at my expression, and then changed her mind and took them with her. — Colleen Houck

To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not have. In this talk I want to return to the old question of what it is that determines gauge couplings in general, and try to prepare the ground for a future realistic calculation. — Steven Weinberg

When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone. — Stefano Benni

I can see myself staying at Blackburn for the rest of my career - unless I move to another club at some stage — Benni McCarthy

Years since. It was written in 1675, in the home-spun verse of that time and people, — Benjamin Franklin

stick at it like a benni addict — Jack Kerouac