Umit Benan Quotes & Sayings

If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth. — Angela Thirkell

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. — James Roosevelt

I've been married most of my life. And when you're married, you don't have sex. — Zsa Zsa Gabor

On Valentine's Day, the Spirit Club plastered the school with red streamersand pink balloons and red and pink hearts. It looked like Clifford the Big Red Dog ate a flock of flamigoes and then barfed his guts up. — Carolyn Mackler

I have been on dialysis in Istanbul, Milan, Indonesia, Manila, London. It's - it's amazing. — Natalie Cole

Then we talked a lot about our parents and how we didn't want to become them, but we had no other role models
or "maps," Alex kept saying. "My father is a terrible map, mostly because he doesn't ever lead me anywhere." And I thought about my parents being maps that led to places I didn't want to go
and it made a shocking amount of sense, using the word maps to describe parents. If almost made you feel like you could fold Mom and Dad up and lock them away in the glove compartment of your car and just joyride for the rest of your life maybe. — Matthew Quick

In my job, people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away. — Heidi Klum

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice. — Iain Banks

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor." — Hilaire Belloc

Sometimes the road was only a lane, with thick hawthorne hedges, and the green elms overhung it on either side so that when you looked up there was only a strip of blue sky between. And as you rode along in the warm, keen air you had a sensation that the world was standing still and life would last forever. Although you were pedaling with such energy you had a delicious feeling of laziness. — W. Somerset Maugham

I glance at the book he's holding. It is American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. There is a deep, dark irony to this and I wonder if he realises it or not. I want to ask him why he's bought it but what if he's bought it as a text book? — Sarah Alderson

By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs. — Nancy Banks-Smith

It's funny how you can look back in life and there are all these 'if's' - if this hadn't happened would I have been here? If I hadn't done this would I have ended up talking to you? It's funny how life is seriously just a bunch of those moments. — Lights

Digital attitude is about adaptability - being experimental and changeable. — Pearl Zhu