Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Benjamin Disraeli

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• If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Want

• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Children
  • Anxiety

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • World
  • School

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Bad
  • Look
  • Busy

• I felt bad to have to get divorced. I wasn't proud of that.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Bad
  • Proud
  • Get

• I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Children
  • Age
  • Busy

• My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • She
  • Mother
  • Person

• A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspiracy theory is to attack an agency as being part of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but when this same agency comes up with something favorable to the author's position, the author will cite that same agency as credible support for his argument.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Book
  • Support

• When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Family
  • Home

• Bad things happen sometimes.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Bad
  • Sometimes
  • Happen

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Business
  • Experience

• He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Skill
  • Nerves
  • Antagonist

• I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Most

• I grew up singing Ray Charles and Jimmy Reed.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Singing
  • Reed

• In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Music
  • Different
  • House

• Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

  

  Aristotle
  • Quality
  • Habit
  • Act

• Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Materials
  • Surface
  • Intensity

• I think the author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Mother