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 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

• 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

• It must be God first, God second, and God third.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God

• If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

  

  Hal Abelson
  • Real
  • Learning
  • Focus

• I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Fire

• I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Live
  • Earth
  • Universe

• Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Production
  • Presumptions

• Went up from my feet to my head, With little chills after it stealing- And my hands got as numb as the dead. A moment, and then it was over: The diamond blazed up in my eyes, And I saw in the face of my lover A questioning, strange surprise. Maybe 'twas the scent of the flowers, That heavy with fragrance bloomed near, But I didn't feel natural for hours; It was odd now, wasn't it, dear? Write soon to your fortunate Clara Who has carried the prize away, And say you'll come on when I marry; I think it will happen in May.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Winning
  • Broken
  • Pleasure

• It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.

  

  Wesley Clark
  • Dream
  • Energy
  • Goal

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

  

  Alan Bennett
  • Flower
  • Competitive
  • Squash