Markian Benhamou Quotes & Sayings

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts. — Miguel De Unamuno

I strive to get what I want and people have always said I am a monster in that department, but that is always said about us ladies who grasp for our own strength. — Julie Andrews Edwards

Art ... must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit. — Kenneth Clark

The gospel teaches us that though we may have lost a battle or two, the war is not yet over. With the Lord's help and the hope of the gospel, we can win out in the end. Truth ultimately triumphs over falsehood. Evil is overwhelmed by goodness. Sin, however extreme it may have been, can give way to cleansing and refreshing forgiveness. This is the great hope of the gospel, centered as it is in the life, mission and atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. — David S. Baxter

I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it. — Clint Eastwood

The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining may have been his highest purpose. (introduction to Gladiator, Book League Monthly, 1930) — Philip Wylie

Scoffin' a load of our grub an' not tellin' a story? I say, what a bally swizz! — Brian Jacques

In the past I think I had corralled rotten things into groups of three because at some level it gave me the impression I was controlling them, keeping track of them. In my world I believed the universe would only dish out so much shite before it realised it had overdone it and corrected matters.
That, of course, turned out to be nonsense.
The truth is that sometimes the shite just keeps on coming and that is what is so unfair. But here's the thing: it's never all shite. If you can wake up in the morning for just long enough to breathe in and out and see the sun shining, you're already surviving it. You're already if not getting around it, at least getting over it, getting past it.
And who knows what can happen then? — Sarah-Kate Lynch

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us. — John Deacon

It won't hurt me. This will be scary, but it won't hurt me--But fear hurt, too. — Maggie Stiefvater

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly. — Mark Thomas

If a manager of mine ever said someone was indispensable, I'd fire him. — Charlie Finley

A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny. — Hans Christian Andersen

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos. — Rollo May