Alan Bennett Quotes

If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Alan Bennett

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• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Amazing
  • Teacher
  • Drama

• I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Body

• I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Great
  • Look
  • Traditions

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • She
  • Mother

• People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• I am an African and I am very proud of that.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Proud
  • African

• Ginger: I can't do this, Lois! I can't go out with a woman who has a child! I'm too young, I tell you! I haven't sown my oats yet!Lois: I think your oats are impacted.

  

  Alison Bechdel

• The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Freedom
  • Simple

• There's also a dark vein of intolerance in some parts of the party. What do I mean by that? What I mean by that is they still sort of look down on minorities.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Party
  • Dark

• When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • Sorry

• I believe that every person is born with talent.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Believe
  • Born
  • Talent

• Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?

  

  Jim Courier

• Behind mass immigration, there is terrorism.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Immigration

• Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

  

  David Brin
  • Life
  • Fool

• Mark what 'tis his mind aims at in the question, and not what words he expresses it in: and when you have informed and satisfied him in that, you shall see how his thoughts will enlarge themselves, and how by fit answers he may be led on farther than perhaps you could have imagine. For knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Mind
  • May
  • Words

• My process for determining which eras I'd write about was to just read history books that gave a really broad overview of Chinese history. And when I came across a historical figure or a historical incident that was especially interesting to me, ideas for characters and stories would surface.

  

  Susan Barker
  • Character
  • History
  • Determining

• If a fan comes up and it is a middle-aged lady, it is probably from 'Prime'; if it is a younger girl, it is probably from when I guest-starred on 'One Tree Hill.' And if it is, like, a skateboard kid or a hipster kid, I can tell they are 'How to Make It' fans.

  

  Bryan Greenberg
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Tree

• If you ask me, what is helpful to creativity is training the eye to notice things, to observe closely and precisely, being careful not to make a muddle of it.

  

  Ian Graham
  • Training
  • Eye
  • Creativity

• I hid my love when young till ICouldn't bear the buzzing of a fly;I hid my love to my despiteTill I could not bear to look at light:I dare not gaze upon her faceBut left her memory in each place;Where eer I saw a wild flower lieI kissed and bade my love good bye.

  

  John Clare
  • Good
  • Light
  • Fly

• When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.

  

  Atifete Jahjaga
  • Information
  • Solutions
  • Enlightenment

• If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

  

  Alan Bennett
  • Flower
  • Competitive
  • Squash