Bentille Quotes & Sayings

Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable. — Rebecca Solnit

The Lord listens in all those places. They're just different slices of the same pie. — Bette Lee Crosby

9/11 just seemed to come out of the blue. And there were people asking questions, but then there were no answers. At some point, it just turned into, "We've got to do what we've got to do." And I think those are the moments when you grow, when you get the opportunity to try to figure out, exactly as you said, what price are you paying, and if it's worth that price. — Susan Sarandon

My voice is an instrument. — David Coverdale

I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retirement' is not a word I can even visualize. I retire when I go to bed! — Carmen Dell'Orefice

He pondered, having many disjointed and unconnected brooding thoughts; they swam through him like silvery fish. Fears, and mild dislikes, and apprehensions. And all the silvery fish recirculating to begin once more as fear. — Anonymous

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles. — Elizabeth Aston

I should've been a nun, he says, half aloud, as his feet leave the ledge. — Dale McGowan

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences. — Boyd K. Packer

The few lamps we left on softly illuminate the walls, and I think about all the paper around us, all this love and pain and fear and hope. We're surrounded by words. Nothing about this moment could be more perfect, because I'm absolutely in love with this room and the people in it, on the wall and otherwise. And with this one boy in particular. — Tamara Ireland Stone

Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind. — Janet Fitch

I am not one who was born with great wisdom. I love the ancients and diligently seek wisdom among them. — Confucius

Life's too short to live in the past, Amelia. Let him have his ghosts. * — Amanda Stevens