Wystan Benbow Quotes & Sayings

University of Hawaii Press, 1983; The Happiest Man: The Life of Louis Borgenicht (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942). Used by permission of Lindy Friedman Sobel and Alice Friedman Holzman. The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher. ISBN 978-0-316-04034-1 E3 — Malcolm Gladwell

Form is solidified energy; energy is an expression of mind; mind is the covered mirror of Eternity; and Eternity is Truth that has thrown off the mask of mind. — Meher Baba

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time. — Michael Chabon

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one. — Johannes Rau

The more beautiful the sky, the more hopeless the neighborhood. — Andrew Holleran

Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head. — Albert Einstein

A young woman with fiery hair stood on a hill dominated by an oak, the smoking ruins of an estate to her left. To her right was an abyss. Tiny flecks of blue and green touched her gray eyes. Tears stood on each cheek, but her jaw was set, eyes fixed on some point in the distance. — Brent Weeks

I love having fun! Why not? — Debbi Fields

There were advantages to being a dead man. — Susan Dennard

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. — B.F. Skinner

The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers. — Margaret Heffernan

When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey. — Kelly Slater

There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form. — Gertrude Stein

Show yourself!" Snape said, tapping the map sharply. It stayed blank. Harry was taking deep, calming breaths. "Professor Severus Snape, master of this school, commands you to yield the information you conceal!" Snape said, hitting the map with his wand. — J.K. Rowling

Do you know that there's hardly anyone left of last year's Caucasian governments? I've tried to stop it, but in vain. Yet they can't all be Trotskyites and traitors. — Lavrentiy Beria