Benjamin Earl King (Ben E. King) Quotes

I'd originally intended 'Stand By Me' for the Drifters.

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• You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • She
  • You
  • Feeling

• I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Game
  • Play
  • Getting Better

• Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Gold
  • Most
  • Even

• I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Beginning
  • Design
  • Jewelry

• Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • People
  • Behavior
  • Rude

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Chance
  • Pool

• I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Way
  • Passion

• For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Movie
  • Certain
  • Scenes

• I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Like
  • One-Man

• I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Kind
  • Sweet
  • Villain

• As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Talk
  • Wear
  • Soon

• Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Life
  • God
  • Rest

• One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • Good
  • Day
  • Practice

• The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Relationship
  • Baby

• As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Love
  • Fall

• It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Mistake

• I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

  

  L. Frank Baum

• Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Deep

• God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • God
  • Friends
  • Fear

• I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi

• I'd originally intended 'Stand By Me' for the Drifters.

  

  Benjamin Earl King