Alan Bennett Quotes

All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

Alan Bennett

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• Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Human Nature

• When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Different
  • Dance
  • Audience

• I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.

  

  Feist
  • Time
  • Studios
  • Proper

• All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• When I visit businesses across New Hampshire, they tell me that their No. 1 need is even more highly skilled workers to fill job openings.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Job
  • Me
  • New

• Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Heart
  • Weird
  • Sad

• I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Think

• I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Years
  • Old
  • Known

• Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Real
  • Words
  • Control

• Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Faith

• She gave the lie to the European superstition - chiefly a missionary superstition - that the women of the East are downtrodden.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Women
  • She
  • Missionary

• But that's what I'm saying to you... That there are bad people in this world, and sometimes bad people stay bad. Sometimes you have to stand up to them.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Moving

• In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Age
  • Failure

• I don't actually have problems dealing with corporate situations. There are times I've railed against it, but there are other times when I'm like, 'I'll take your money, no problem.'

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Money

• I cross-dressed as the judge in 'Hill Street Blues,' you know.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Judge

• They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre, O'er lesser powers that be.

  

  William Ross Wallace
  • Men
  • Sea
  • Land

• Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Men
  • Use
  • Gains

• I don’t believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.

  

  Alan Sugar
  • God
  • Believe
  • Culture

• As counterintuitive as it sounds, 'speed to fail' should be every entrepreneur's motto. Success isn't born wholly-formed like Venus from a clamshell; it's developed through relentless trial and error.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Success
  • Entrepreneur

• Caesar was too old, it seems to me, to go off and amuse himself conquering the world. Such a pastime was all right for Augustus and Alexander; they were young men, not easily held in check, but Caesar ought to have been more mature.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Mature
  • Check
  • Caesar

• All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

  

  Alan Bennett
  • Knowledge
  • Use
  • Precious