Benthelooney Quotes & Sayings

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them. — H.L. Mencken

Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

... you know, sometimes an electric lightbulb goes out all of a sudden. Fizzles, you say. And this burned-out bulb, if you shake it, it flashes again and it'll burn a little longer. Inside the bulb it's a disaster. The wolfram filaments are breaking up, and when the fragments touch, life returns to the bulb. A brief, unnatural, undeniably doomed life - a fever, a too-bright incandescence, a flash. The comes the darkness, life never returns, and in the darkness the dead, incinerated filaments are just going to rattle around. Are you following me? But the brief flash is magnificent!
"I want to shake ...
"I want to shake the heart of a fizzled era. The lightbulb of the heart, so that the broken pieces touch ...
" ... and produce a beautiful, momentary flash ... — Yury Olesha

arrived veiled, as compared to 639 the previous fall. Chirac ordered that the hundredth anniversary — Christopher Caldwell

I love the finality of film. When you make a movie, you know the beginning, middle, and end. — Elizabeth Banks

Hope is the breakfast of champions. — Tom Sturm

I need to have systems in place to track and monitor my leads — Tim Gordon

When one has faith that the spring thaw will arrive, the winter winds seem to lose some of their punch. — Robert Veninga

Sometimes your talent can steer you away from your passion. — Fawn Weaver

One day a partially deaf four years old child came home with a note in his pocket from his teacher, "Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of school." His mother read the note and answered, "My Tommy is not too stupid to learn, I will teach him myself." And that Tommy grew up to be the great Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had only three months of formal schooling. — Shiv Khera