Ben Sherwood Quotes

We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.

Ben Sherwood

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• When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • War
  • Trees
  • Buildings

• I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Want

• People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Always

• You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.

  

  Karen Bass
  • Know
  • Community
  • Office

• The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • Bread

• Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Thought
  • Clouds
  • Rainbow

• As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Country
  • Car
  • New York

• The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Hand
  • Best
  • Look

• Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Virtue
  • Empathy
  • Judicial

• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Boy
  • Child
  • Ship

• If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Religion
  • Sound
  • Say

• I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Song

• The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Done

• A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Character
  • Death
  • Blow

• I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Happy
  • Doing
  • I Can

• For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Times

• This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Man
  • Moon
  • Destiny

• We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • School
  • Kids
  • Age

• It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

  

  O. Henry
  • Great
  • Place
  • Finish

• The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Rest
  • Present
  • Population

• The problem is some of the populism on both the far left and the far right, it can make a Tweet but not make a policy. And, you know, when you are dealing with issues that are as important and serious as this, I understand why people search for simple solutions.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • Important
  • Problem

• Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Done
  • Always

• We chase wild dreams and long for all that eludes us, when the greatest joys are within our grasp, if we can only recognize them.

  

  Ben Sherwood
  • Dreams
  • Recognize
  • Joys