Benjamin Franklin Fairless Quotes

You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.

Benjamin Franklin Fairless

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• I could see myself doing a cooking show.

  

  Marcel Theo Hall
  • Cooking

• The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Impossible
  • Improbable
  • Believable

• Ignorance is not innocence.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Ignorance
  • Innocence

• Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Know
  • Thank You
  • Whisper

• I don't believe in singles. The singles market has changed. I am trying to get back to the old days of releasing albums at will, like Star Wars coming out again.

  

  Prince
  • Market
  • Albums
  • Singles

• When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

  

  George Shearing
  • Dog
  • Reincarnation
  • Bach

• The kiss that you have never given is just as powerful as hours of actual lovemaking. The erotic isn't just what is happening between people's legs. It is also what's happening in their erotic mind.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Mind
  • Powerful
  • Hours

• Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Time
  • Music
  • American

• The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about, or even looking at.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Time

• I don't take advances for my books.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Book

• Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Light
  • Expectations

• For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Love
  • Measures
  • Stature

• I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not.

  

  Bronislaw Malinowski
  • Christian
  • Religion
  • Accept

• Only know you've been high when you're feeling low.

  

  Passenger
  • High
  • Feeling
  • Low

• The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.

  

  Danny Lyon
  • Gym
  • Cameras
  • Cells

• My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.

  

  Roberto Cavalli
  • Family
  • Dream
  • Moment

• You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.

  

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless
  • Stature
  • Dwarf
  • Gaint