Anna Benson Quotes

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

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• It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Great
  • Deep
  • Tears

• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Work
  • Job
  • Challenge

• I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.

  

  Carlton Fisk
  • People
  • Remember
  • Think

• The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.

  

  Dan Hill
  • American
  • Made
  • Deals

• Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

  

  Karl Rove
  • Eye
  • See
  • Budget

• A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Man
  • Everyone
  • Politician

• So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Long
  • Man
  • Impossible

• My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • She
  • Mother
  • Black

• It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Good
  • Comedy

• In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.

  

  Olivia Cooke
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Low-Key

• Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Something
  • How

• I enjoy money.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Money
  • Enjoy

• I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

  

  Mae West
  • Stage
  • Just
  • Broadway

• I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • More
  • Writer

• The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Up
  • World
  • Value

• One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • May
  • Past
  • Powerful

• I'm not a long-term member of the 'Breaking Bad' family.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Long
  • Family
  • Bad

• I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.

  

  Joanna Trollope

• When a director can give you a word that allows you to feel less tense about yourself, to make you feel like you indeed are good enough before you even get to the work, you can't ask for anything more than that.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Good
  • Giving
  • Enough

• There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Attention
  • Stupid
  • Ego

• Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Hands
  • Horror
  • Moonlight

• If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

  

  Anna Benson