Bennie Smith Quotes & Sayings

My face and body have been a tool for my career, and I'm very conscious of that aspect and try and keep it the best I can. — Jerry Hall

I find it easy to admire in trees what depresses me in people — Marge Piercy

I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day. — Idris Elba

What one fool can understand, another can. — Richard P. Feynman

I decided I would open this little actors' workshop I always told actors to look for. That gave me something to do on Wednesday nights, and after about a year of that, I realized that some of the things I was saying to actors probably had broader application. I ran into a magazine called 'Speakers For Free.' — Robert Forster

If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful. — Plato

Taking in another's criticism, even when it's offered out of love, requires courage. — Sharon Salzberg

On the end of WWII in Europe:

Few comments matched those of Bennie Smith, Howard K. Smith's wife, who told her husband: "No matter what terrible things happen in the future, we must remember this: we won. We might not have. They might have won. Think of what the world would have been like if they had won. Nothing can ever be as terrible as that. — Mark Bernstein

My father chose acquiescence and life rather than resistance and death. Not a very admirable choice, but a very human one. — Bette Greene

Aronson's first law:

People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy. — Elliot Aronson

I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of. — Neil Gaiman

Too often we worry about how the others react-but it's YOUR reaction that they monitor. — Sam Cawthorn