Bentsen Palms Quotes & Sayings

Of course she'd told him she would, but if the man hadn't registered her sarcasm, then he wasn't making full use of his ears. — Mary Connealy

As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You walk into a new audience where nobody knows you, they go: 'Make us laugh. Show us what you're made of. Prove why we should be listening to you.' — Trevor Noah

I want to make films that cater to the world audiences. — Kangana Ranaut

All parents want their children to be happy, but so few parents talk about it. — Robert Holden

I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl. — Jana Kramer

The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness. — Henri Lefebvre

The only two things in our lives are aliveness and patterns that block our aliveness. — Werner Erhard

This is what forty looks like. We've been lying so long, who would know? — Gloria Steinem

Instead of focusing on some thoughts and feelings and pushing away others, just look at them as feathers flying in the wind. The wind is your awareness, your inborn openness and clarity. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche

All the tears in the world can't bring back the dead or wash away your fears and grief. I want you to put up your chin and tell yourself you are strong. And if you begin to weaken, hold on to me. That's what I am here for. — Cynthia Wright

The ability to row in any conditions, raging crosswind, two-foot tall jet ski wakes, torrential downpour, is absolutely essential in order to be a champion sculler. It all comes under the heading of boatmanship. Some races are won on nothing more than superior boatmanship. — Brad Alan Lewis

As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum. — Natasha Trethewey

It was being published, even after his death, that brought Franz Kafka alive: otherwise he would have been just a man who got nowhere with women. — Clive James

In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent with the goodness of the fruitful earth. — Kevin Starr