E.M. Benton Quotes
Although I had a few jobs that I didn't like, or quit, or got fired from, I really loved New York from the moment I got here and I never stopped.
Everybody thought New York was this hard, cruel place, and I found it to be an extraordinarily wonderful place filled with the most interesting people.
Movie narration in the forties was radically different than the narrative involved in books.
Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes
Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.
The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.
Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colors of the rainbow fade into each other.
Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles.
Anyway, stories bring us together to find common ground, to find our way through life together, or just to entertain us, and I am just thrilled to be a part of that process.
That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.
As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.
I think I've learned that if you want to be successful, you have to tell your story honestly and from your heart - and I think a healthy sense of humor doesn't hurt either.
The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August. God, middle age is an unending insult.
A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be a peace on earth for one entire day.
I love to cook, my husband and I collect wine, and in my head, I am always on Sullivan's Island, walking the beach listening to the song of the ocean.
I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.
The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.
There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.
The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.
Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.
...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.
We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.
I thought I was in love once and then later I thought maybe it was just an inner-ear imbalance.
On many of the great issues of our time men have lacked wisdom because they have lacked courage.
I know what that does to a man, to walk the earth with the burden of his sin on his back. It poisons all he touches.
I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret."-Clare Harding.
Let your heart sing from those wounded places.When you sing your song with everything you've got, it will not only heal you, but it will heal all of us through you.
The pain is real. Flowing as a brook beneath my flesh. I am broken, and yet, I still breathe.
The following ten throws went a variety of places. I never hit the target, but I was getting closer. Isabella was laughing so hard she wrote "Please stop can't breathe" in the dirt with her finger.