CL Bennett Quotes

The pleasure of doing a thing in the same way at the same time every day, and savoring it, should be noted.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned.

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

I have a very strong passion to sing and paint. I'm really a student.

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.

There's always something every night that I learn from reacting to what the audience is reacting to. You learn what to leave out, what to put in, if you need a little more comedy or more drama.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

I think psychoanalyze-pinhead is the important lesson of GNU Emacs.

Dakin (to Irwin, his teacher): Do you really believe that, sir, or are you just trying to make us think?

The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.

You cannot by any chance fail if you persevere.

Being a husband is a whole-time job.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

Every human being has the potential for greatness.

Anyone who wants to sell you overnight success or wealth is not interested in your success; they are interested in your money.

Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.

I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.

Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

While we are focusing on fear, worry or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

It is a paradoxical statement, but it takes incredible personal discipline to play with great freedom.

Excellence is the result of habitual integrity.

For us to be successful on defense, we must get back and stop the basketball, eliminate easy baskets, keep the ball out of the lane, and bother the shooters.

If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.

To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.

I write box notes for Kino International, which specializes in distributing foreign films.

I believe there are certain things that cannot be bought -- loyalty, friendship, health, love and an American League pennant.

All clients' needs and expectations are vastly different.

As a head-hunter I get a lot of satisfaction from seeing my candidates do well and therefore my clients happy. I want to work with clients more as a partner than simply a head-hunter.

I will defend anyone as long as the client gives me total control of the case and pays up front.

Nature played a cruel trick on her by giving her a waxed mustache.

Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.

What happens tomorrow is but the shadow of thoughts we held today.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy

To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.

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

...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.

... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.

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