C.L. Bennett Quotes

...when you buy just two or three tons from a grower, they see the artisan work you do with their grapes, and then they want to give you their good fruit. By keeping small I can put my heart into it.

All eager-lipped I kissed the mouth of Death.

Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs - the best popular music ever composed.

Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

I always feel the audience is my best teacher.

Every city I go to is an opportunity to paint, whether it's Omaha or Hawaii.

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

What you specifically teach is what your players will do best.

Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.

I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.

We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.

The world rushes through us. We are peaceful. We are as deep and black as space. Staring up at the stars, we see only our own image reflected back at us. We are infinite and we are ravenous.

And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.

When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

I mean the opposite of what I say./You've got it now? No, it's the other way.

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.

Peeves do not make very good pets.

I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my upbringing and outlook.

Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.

Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Everything you do has to drive content, and the rest takes care of itself.

When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

More than anybody else I’d like to thank Count Basie for teaching me how to perform.

Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

Most people sleep themselves stupid.

When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can't expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.

Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.

It helps to know there is going to be continuity.

Sometimes the teacher would tell me that if you're singing a love song and you just don't feel it with a person or something you've experienced, just think of a dog or cat that you love.

Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

They can make the wild ideas we come up with a reality.

Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

Pace yourself, pace yourself, pace yourself. And take time to rest. I guess if you don't rest and rejuvenate, then you harden, and I don't want to harden.

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.

I can walk. It's just that I'm so rich I don't need to.

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?