Alan Bennett Quotes

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

Alan Bennett

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• You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Real
  • May
  • Me

• 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 believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated a great deal of the speculation that goes on about the origins, development, and nature of the human race.

  

  Elaine Morgan
  • I Believe
  • Confusion
  • Human Race

• I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

  

  Gene Cernan
  • World
  • America
  • Knowledge

• A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.

  

  George Eliot
  • Home
  • Knowledge
  • Sounds

• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Best
  • Politics
  • Cards

• Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Newspapers

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

  

  Alan Bennett
  • Knowledge
  • Use
  • Precious