Cedric Benson Quotes
It's another hurdle, another adventure life has presented me, and I'm going to take it in stride.
Quotes to Explore
-
In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
-
I thought 'Garfunkel and Oates' would be too confusing, but it ended up being confusing in the best of ways because the first time we played a comedy club, it was because they thought we were the real Garfunkel and Oates.
-
Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
-
When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
-
In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
-
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
-
The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.
-
You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
-
As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine.
-
If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
-
The presumption that an extant mode is efficient if the expected net gain is negative can nevertheless be rebutted by showing that the obstacles to implementing an otherwise superior feasible alternative are 'unfair.'
-
My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
-
For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
-
On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
-
Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
-
Eid is here! On the first day, it is a custom for all Malaysian Muslims to ask for forgiveness from our parents. We kiss their hands and wish them 'Selamat Hari Raya' or 'Eid Mubarak.' 'Maaf Zahir dan Batin' means 'to apologize in spirit and actions.'
-
In England, rain was thin and cold, and made you hunch up inside your coat, walking home from the bus stop. In Jamaica, it was wide and thick and invited you to step into it, and see how wet you could get, and be thrilled that it was warmer than the sea and warmer than your skin; it was abandon.
-
It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.
-
The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles.
-
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
-
But when you walked out of that building, you created a new history that we have to live in now.
-
If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
-
I have always believed that I am an amazing skater regardless of what the results say, and I think that determination and confidence has kept me in the game so long.
-
It's another hurdle, another adventure life has presented me, and I'm going to take it in stride.
