Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Stone
  • Rolling
  • Moss

• I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Men
  • Women
  • Action

• I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Man
  • You
  • Hand

• Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

  

  Mae West
  • Long
  • Want
  • Dresses

• The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.

  

  Adam Dell
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Like

• The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Taken
  • Regret

• Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.

  

  Harold Hamm
  • Wealth
  • Oil
  • Ancient

• How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are almost on a level with the uplands. It throws itself on the leaves of autumn, and holds them down in security from the strongest winds.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Small
  • Security
  • Snow

• Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • World
  • Me
  • Language

• I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Trying
  • Job
  • Reading

• You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Life
  • Music
  • Want

• If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Artist
  • Fight
  • Choice

• I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • House
  • Democracy

• I had an idea in the beginning to do a book about some of the events that I had covered, just various stories that I've covered. Reporters spend a lot of time telling each other tales about how they covered stories, and that's what this book started out to be.

  

  Bob Schieffer
  • Time
  • Book
  • Beginning

• If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • World

• When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors.

  

  James MacArthur

• Once you've invested hundreds of hours in creating a coherent universe, your story's grown to around a half-million words and can't be written as anything less than a trilogy.

  

  Lynn Abbey
  • Words
  • Universe

• As editor-in-chief of the 'Guardian' and the 'Observer', my job is to ensure that our independent journalism continues to be enjoyed by as many readers as possible and that our print newspapers make a positive financial contribution to securing a sustainable future.

  

  Katharine Viner
  • Job
  • Future
  • Positive

• I think calling someone a character is a compliment.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Character
  • Calling
  • Compliment

• "On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Character
  • Honor
  • Letters