Eric Bentley Quotes

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

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• You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Want
  • Sick

• I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

  

  Kajol
  • People
  • Want
  • Film

• At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Man
  • Food
  • Best

• I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • People
  • Love
  • Business

• What we are going to do is to listen carefully to what the president says Saturday afternoon and take it from there.

  

  Jack Straw
  • President
  • Saturday

• Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Computer

• If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • People
  • Thinking
  • May

• Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Human

• The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Live
  • Ego

• To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.

  

  Frederick Delius
  • Color
  • Loveliness
  • Poignancy

• There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Trying
  • Stop

• Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Strange
  • Profession

• We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Tired
  • Grows
  • Defects

• Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Common
  • Weapon
  • Commerce

• A tree there is that from its topmost bough Is half all glittering flame and half all green Abounding foliage moistened with the dew; And half is half and yet is all the scene; And half and half consume what they renew.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Tree
  • Scene
  • Contradiction

• I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • Influence
  • Honest
  • Position

• It’s a lot easier to be mean than to be nice. So mean people, on top of being jerks, are also lazy and uninventive.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Mean
  • Lazy
  • To Be

• Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Geography
  • Fluid
  • Unreliable

• Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

  

  Eric Bentley
  • Geography
  • Maps
  • Biography