Benny Hill Quotes

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

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• I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Guys
  • Girls
  • Boyfriend

• I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Golden Girls.' I have watched them over and over again for years.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Girls
  • Inspiring
  • Watch

• I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Girls
  • Disguise
  • Fragile

• I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Hurt
  • Girls
  • Kissing

• Grace Jones was an influence, because I was like, 'These shoulders! These pants! Girls can wear pants and be awesome.' That's something I definitely embody.

  

  Lorde
  • Awesome
  • Girls
  • Shoulders

• “When I was young I had all the advantages. My father worked for Howard Hughes, we lived in Bel Air. I went to the best schools, and got the best girls. My intelligence quotient was well above average; and yet I could be a rebellious, troublesome punk who brought more than a little anxiety to my parents.”

  

  Jan Berry
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Air

• Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Small
  • Hair

• What sort of girls do i like? - They are all angels.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Like
  • Girls
  • Angels

• I like girls who are intelligent, somewhat funny, and pretty with a nice personality.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Nice

• ... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I like bossy girls. I always have. I like people filled with life.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Life
  • Girls

• Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Game
  • Football
  • Boys

• Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Girls
  • Enemies
  • Adversaries

• Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

  

  O. Henry
  • Heart
  • Nature
  • Man

• The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Girls
  • Queen
  • Reclaim

• I love wearing flat shoes, but I am not one of those girls who walks around in sweat pants and sneakers.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Shoes
  • Girls
  • Sneakers

• Failing well is a skill. Letting girls do it gives them critical practice coping with a negative experience. It also gives them the opportunity to develop a kind of confidence and resilience that can only be forged in times of challenge.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Experience
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• I've had something like seven films at Sundance, one of which won the Grand Jury Prize.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Something
  • Prize
  • Seven

• Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Help
  • Chinese
  • Cinema

• I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Climate

• I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Pride
  • Wealth
  • Creation

• I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Amazing

• Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

  

  Benny Hill
  • Girls
  • Grand
  • Pianos