Stella Benson Quotes

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

Stella Benson

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• I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Think
  • Know
  • Best

• I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.

  

  Jacky Ido
  • Kids
  • American
  • Father

• I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Age
  • Dad
  • Die

• Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better

• We're now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of comfort to get there, which would make your drugs so much more effective.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Want
  • Words
  • Comfort

• One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • Paris
  • Arts
  • Decorative

• I like to control my own personal life.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Control
  • Like

• Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Why

• I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Up
  • Women
  • Passion

• I think I made this decision that I just loved making music, and it didn't matter what level I got to do it on, and 'Fight Song' was this declaration that I'm going to keep going, and I'm going to keep believing in myself, even if it seems like it's impossible.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Song
  • Myself

• I've been lucky enough to travel the world and win awards and medals, but it was time to stop.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Time
  • World
  • Stop

• We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.

  

  Kent Beck
  • People
  • Funny
  • Technology

• As a DJ, it's my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that's coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I've always gravitated to something that's just different, you know?

  

  Diplo
  • Music
  • Different
  • Job

• My mother is a beauty.

  

  Mary-Louise Parker
  • Mother

• Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.

  

  James Dyson

• We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

  

  Arkady Volozh
  • Up
  • Business
  • Search

• Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

  

  Jane Haddam
  • True

• As parents, we teach our children to do what's right.

  

  Ann Callis
  • Children
  • Parents

• There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.

  

  Michelle Forbes
  • Feelings
  • Danger
  • Youth

• Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.

  

  Mark Morris
  • World
  • Music
  • Travel

• Belief is a powerful thing.

  

  T.J. Dillashaw
  • Powerful
  • MMA
  • Ufc

• My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That helped broaden my palate generally, but I know it informed my distaste for factory farms and unspectacular commercial meat.

  

  Steve Albini Big Black
  • Father
  • Games
  • Experts

• It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

  

  Michael Medved
  • Changed
  • Expectations
  • Prejudice

• We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Travel
  • Knows
  • Forget