Benjamin E. Mays Quotes
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
Quotes to Explore
-
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
-
The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
-
Everything begins with an idea.
-
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
-
I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
-
I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
-
It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
-
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
-
When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
-
I have never liked the 'Been there done that' thing... You hear that all the time from people, and I think it's just based on pure insecurity... Each person is going to have their own unique take on something.
-
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
-
We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
-
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
-
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
-
People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.
-
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
-
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
-
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
-
Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.
-
So many people - it’s just hard to believe, but just so many people dead, so many people gravely injured, so much carnage, such a disgrace. The horror is beyond description. The families of these wonderful people are totally devastated, and they will be forever. Likewise, our whole nation and indeed the whole world is devastated.
-
There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.
-
No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.
-
I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.
-
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
