Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

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• I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wonder

• The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Family
  • Name
  • Vote

• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Passion
  • Justice
  • Revenge

• In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • War
  • Age
  • You

• You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • You
  • Right
  • Counsel

• I'm asking you to talk with your friends, neighbors, and relatives - even the ones you've never talked to about reproductive rights. That's how you can throw your number in the bucket, and stand with a president who has stood with us. Conversation by conversation, vote by vote, we will re-elect President Barack Obama!

  

  Nancy Keenan
  • Friends
  • Conversation
  • Stand

• It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Parents
  • Day
  • Weird

• Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Different
  • New
  • Something

• Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Victory
  • Defeat
  • Orphan

• My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Teacher
  • Girls

• This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Love
  • Power
  • Miracles

• Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Want
  • Struggle
  • Emotional

• I think....living in such a hard situation when there are terrorists and they slaughter people every night is still hard - is still a threat. So it's a better idea to speak out for your rights and then die...we will speak out for our rights. This is what we can do, and we tried our best.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Night
  • Die

• He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Heart
  • She
  • Pain

• I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model for anybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged social setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • Children
  • May

• Lying on my hotel bed, mesmerized by the lazy turns of the ceiling fan, I pondered the possibility that I was nuts. It wasn’t unheard of, even in the days of the Bitchun Society, and even though there were cures, they weren’t pleasant.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Society
  • Lazy

• 'Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.'

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Life
  • Future
  • Smile

• Tradition is only a readymade. It’s for us to make a new gesture-to use it as a reference, more as a starting point than conclusion. Of course, there are very different attitudes and interpretations about our past and our memory of it. And ours is never a complete one, but is broken. In China, but also in my practice.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Different
  • Past
  • Practice

• Older animals are the best because, number one, a majority of the time, they are already house-trained; number two, you know exactly what kind of personality you are going to be getting with that animal; and number three, they are already full size, so no need to wonder how big they are going to get.

  

  Beth Ostrosky Stern
  • Wonder
  • Personality
  • Animals

• Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Spiritual
  • Progress

• O God, protect me from my friends, that they have not power over me. Thou hast giv'n me power to protect myself from thy bitterest enemies.

  

  William Blake
  • God
  • Protect
  • Enemies

• I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch