William Bennett Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
-
You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
-
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
-
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
-
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
-
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
-
I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
-
Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
-
I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
-
I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
-
As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
-
You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
-
I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
-
I really think that it's disgusting that Paris is the only place where it is illegal for paps to follow you around. It actually took someone losing their life - Diana, an inspirational woman - and then it changed, but they still won't change it in London! It's horrible!
-
If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
-
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it.
-
No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
-
I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
-
Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.
-
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
-
Little remnants from everywhere I've been are scattered around my home. I collect rocks in a weird way, with stones from around the world as mementos. I've also got three haranas, which are little guitars.
-
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
-
The truth is I have had, for whatever reason, several movie-star boyfriends.
-
Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.
