Benny Quotes & Sayings

Benny sat on the floor next to Mrs. Collins and said, "Would you come and visit us sometime? I'd like to show you our boxcar. You know we ran away once, too."
Mrs. Collins smiled. "Benny, I would love to visit you and to hear about your adventures."
"We've had lots of them," Violet said. "But you know, I think this one was the best."

The Mystery of the Singing Ghost — Gertrude Chandler Warner

Conan O'Brien has talked about how comedians try to emulate their heroes, fall short, and end up doing their own thing. Johnny Carson tried to be Jack Benny but ended up Johnny Carson. David Letterman tried to copy Johnny Carson but ended up David Letterman. And Conan O'Brien tried to be David Letterman but ended up Conan O'Brien. In O'Brien's words, "It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique." Thank goodness. — Austin Kleon

Travis pushed me behind him a few feet and stood tall. I hope you know, Benny, that when I take out your men, I mean no disrespect. But I'm in love with this girl, and I can't let you hurt her. — Jamie McGuire

Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius. — William, Saroyan

Really study what types of formats have been working online that you resonate with: get a feel for what works in the current ecosystem of online video. Sometimes, that passion-project you really want to do is not the way to start. — Benny Fine

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity. — Benny Hill

Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I'd imagine that a lot of them criticized me-said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I've always wanted to know what made music. How you do it, and why it sounds good. I always practiced, worked like hell. — Benny Goodman

The more you give the less your poor — Benny Bellamacina

In hip hop, it's a lot more about lacing a hot track. I start it, I help mix it, I help write it, I help produce it, I cut the person's vocals. I'm involved from the beginning to the end of a song. I'm not just giving someone a beat, you know? — Benny Blanco

- As long as we think positively, as I said. - I don't think Sonya actually weighs much more than four tons, perhaps four and a half at the most, said The Beauty. - You see, Benny, said Allan. That's what I mean by thinking positively. The problem immediately became a whole ton less. — Jonas Jonasson

Faith does not ignore the facts, it ignores the power of the facts. — Benny Hinn

All the best pubs are built on a hill, so you can slope in and roll out. — Benny Bellamacina

Achieve everything and fail at the rest — Benny Bellamacina

It's very, very corrupting to the spirit, doing comedy. And you have to be almost a saint, like Jack Benny was, like Steve Martin is, to avoid the corrupting of it, because there's very little work where the actual work and the reward are simultaneous, and comedy is that. — Mike Nichols

Want less, live more — Benny Bellamacina

Moderation is the key to old age and the doorway to boredom — Benny Bellamacina

No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989? — Benny Green

I was going to shave this morning but mislaid my chin — Benny Bellamacina

When you reach the middle of your career ladder, turn it the other way around and slide down to the top — Benny Bellamacina

Sometimes it's better to fail with pride, than to succeed at a price — Benny Bellamacina

I don't want to make music alone in a dark studio and make me feel awful and depressed. I want to make music and feel happy and get to share it with people. — Benny Blanco

I am looking forward to even greater healings and miracles in my ministry. — Benny Hinn

It was Christmas Day and Danny the Car Wiper hit the street junksick and broke after seventy-two hours in the precinct jail. It was a clear bright day, but there was warmth in the sun. Danny shivered with an inner cold. He turned up the collar of his worn, greasy black overcoat.
This beat benny wouldn't pawn for a deuce, he thought. — William S. Burroughs

When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine — Benny Bellamacina

Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born? — Benny Hill

Jesus Christ knew the only way He would stop Satan is by becoming one in nature with him ... He became one with the nature of Satan, so all those who had the nature of Satan can partake of the nature of God. — Benny Hinn

God will begin to prosper you, for money always follows righteousness. — Benny Hinn

I grew up once, I decided never to do it again — Benny Bellamacina

The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers. — Benny Fine

I practice three hours daily on my violin so I won't get worse. — Jack Benny

I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist's attorneys. I'd say, 'This is Jay-Z's attorney, we need to speak with Craig Kallman,' you know, owner of Atlantic, and they'd say, 'Right away,' and then I'd be like, 'Please just listen to my demo tape!' — Benny Blanco

When you can't think clearly, climb to the top of your thoughts — Benny Bellamacina

The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person. — Benny Anderson

Someone stake that bastard, please, and for the sake of the gods, dust Benny off the table by the fountain. The powder's disgusting and it's getting into the blood. (Apollite) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's free to feed your mind and your mind feeds your body — Benny Bellamacina

I am still waiting for the day that they say, 'Time's up, Blanco. Back to your shift at Walmart.' — Benny Blanco

Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere. — Benny Blanco

Love life, Live Love — Benny Bellamacina

He [Benny Carter] is all that every jazz musician the world over wants to be. He's performed 20,000 nights. How many shoes have been shined? How much mascara put on? Rouge? How many of those impossible bowties have been tied? How many love songs have been sung? How many dances have been danced? How many have passed to the sound of his music? It's been said that a man should not be forced to live up to his art. Benny Carter is one of the rare instances when we wonder whether the great art that a man has created can live up to him. — Wynton Marsalis

Be specific in your prayer requests of GOD. — Benny Hinn

I used to link up boom boxes, record one take, play it into another boom box then play all that back into the other one until I had six tracks. It was unlistenable! — Benny Blanco

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too. — Jack Benny

Your never over the hill to find true love because sometimes, that's where it is — Benny Bellamacina

Everything good that happened to me happened by accident. — Jack Benny

Question everything, unless it's the answer — Benny Bellamacina

I'm not a huge L.A. fan, but I go there for the winter every year. We usually rent a house and have massive house parties. — Benny Blanco

You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music. — Benny Green

When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in. — Bob Hope

A language is a means of communication and should be lived rather than taught. — Benny Lewis

Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill. — Julie Burchill

What you make up in your heads sticks if it's good, falls out if it's bad. If we still remember something a day after we made it up, it might be worth building on. — Benny Anderson

You young people are syphoning the anointing out of me. Syphoning it ... — Benny Hinn

Being kind is not hereditary — Benny Bellamacina

In the big scheme of things, it's the little things that matter — Benny Bellamacina

I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be. — Benny Hill

If there are two straight sides to every story, they'll always be one lopsided truth. — Benny Bellamacina

Lend me your ears and you can borrow my mind — Benny Bellamacina

This was one of those days--a day when you wished you had no ears and no skin with which to feel everything. — Benny Lindelauf

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice. — Benny Goodman

I try to listen to over a hundred different songs a day. I listen to every single thing. If you're just listening to pop music, you're just gonna make pop music. I listen to Adele, Yo Yo Ma, Gucci Mane. — Benny Blanco

Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much. — Benny Green

'MyMusic' is a great showcase of what we can do as creators on a modest budget when we're given the opportunity to put together a television-sized project, and hopefully, whether it's 'MyMusic' making that transition to television or having something sprout off from it, it's an exciting time to be a creator. — Benny Fine

The life we're given is on a thread, so wear it well. — Benny Bellamacina

The next morning was very cold. Benny did not want to get up at all. "No," he said, "it is so cold that I'm not going to get out of bed." Henry looked out at the ocean. "I have an idea," he said. "It's too cold outside today. Let's all stay inside and paint our birds." "Fine!" agreed Jessie. "I'll light the stove and we'll shut the barn door. It will soon be warm. — Gertrude Chandler Warner

Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are — Benny Bellamacina

Try saving when your salary is low. So after making more money, you will not be able to do this anywhere — Jack Benny

Grandfather, there's something we want to talk to you about."
Grandfather looked concerned. "There's nothing wrong, is there?"
"It's about the Roth house," Benny said. "It's a funny house."
"Funny?" Grandfather asked.
"Well," Violet began. "Benny is right. There are funny things in the house and funny people outside the house."

The Mystery of the Singing Ghost — Gertrude Chandler Warner

Leif gripped Benny's shoulders to hold him back, but he broke free and chased the truck, pumping his tiny arms and legs with great furry.
"I love you!" he called out, when he was just ten feet away. I gripped the metal bars, my throat choked with emotion.
"I love you!" Silas cried, as he followed.
They both kept after us, sprinting wildly behind the cage. I watched their mouths moving, saying those words over and again, as the truck bounded through the woods and their small bodies disappeared, unreachable, behind the trees. — Anna Carey

Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit? — Benny Hinn

There's only one person to blame for lack of self confidence — Benny Bellamacina

If you can make it down to the pub, the pub will make it up to you. — Benny Bellamacina

Place pain in a steel box and let it float away," Benny would say. "Pain will always be there - it's how you deal with it that matters. — Duff McKagan

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments. — Benny Goodman

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny. — Joan Collins

In a pre-YouTube world, and in the beginning of the YouTube world, it was more personality-based and centered around very simple content. — Benny Fine

Christmas comes but once a year, starts in August ends in July — Benny Bellamacina

When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter! — Dizzy Gillespie

I bet Aaron swims the fastest," Benny said, squeezing my hand. "He's like a fish. — Anna Carey

A thin man can squeeze into a fat body, yet you can only squeeze a fat man to become thin — Benny Bellamacina

Ke$ha is her art; there is no curtain you peel back to find the real person. And with Ke$ha, you never know what to expect when you're in the studio. — Benny Blanco

This was because Benny Bianchi was always going to be a promise at the same time Benny Bianchi was the prize at the end of a crazy life. — Kristen Ashley

I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time. — Snoop Dogg

We had the whole 'when you assume you make an ass out of you and me' speech in school. — Jonathan Maberry

Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket,
sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. Given to sentimental impulses, he thought he'd look in on the Sailor's Grave, his old tin can's tavern on East Main Street. — Thomas Pynchon

I had never heard anyone play like Benny Goodman and had never seen anyone like him on the stage. I realize now that what impressed me and stayed with me in memory was - the sounds he made. He played so purely. The music seemed to come from him, not just the instrument he played with such mastery. — Marian Seldes

Never make an excuse for going to the pub, save it for leaving. — Benny Bellamacina

I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights and how you were afraid to cross the bridge 'cause the Irish kid on the other side would beat your head in. I left Chicago a long time ago. — Benny Goodman

Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life. — Benny Bellamacina

Well, there's always Nevada," Benny said. "You can buy anything from a hand laser to an atom bomb there. — Joe Haldeman

The truth is that the glory of God is the person and presence of God- The glory is the Holy Spirit . — Benny Hinn

If we thought it would improve our relationship, we would get married tomorrow, but as it is, nearly 7 years after we got engaged, we are content to wait. — Benny Anderson

Yo! Deadheads," he yelled, waving his sword to taunt them. "Nice try, but you're messing with Benny-freaking-Imura, zombie killer. Booyah! — Jonathan Maberry

Is it best to be a dysfunctional human being or a human un-being ? — Benny Bellamacina

As for my band, well, my mentors were Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Jimmie Lunceford, and no one had a band more smartly dressed than Duke. — B.B. King

Adam was a super-being when God created him. — Benny Hinn

You know what days these are? The days of Elijah. We are in the days of Elijah! Fire is falling down from heaven! — Benny Hinn

Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all have signature things that happen to be similar that you can predict and you try to stay away from that except the rhythms: those pauses, they're part of my signature, the part where I know when I say nothing, I already painted enough, led enough and I don't even have to say anything. But those pauses don't belong to me. Jack Benny was one of the first guys in comedy to make the anticipation so great that during the pause people start to laugh before the execution. — Bill Cosby

I might be eating something, and the bag opens in a cool way, and I'm like, 'I wanna put that in the song.' — Benny Blanco

I do what I want. — Benny Thomas

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh. — Benny Hinn