Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) Quotes

I'm like a pitcher in the bullpen, keeping my arm warm. When they call me, I'll be ready to go.

Tony Bennett

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• Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Purpose

• I tend to mostly take the day off from working on Sundays, but I do spend some time reading. Mostly what I'm picking up is what's in stores. I really do love to read fiction from the last year or two.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Working

• My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Together

• Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.

  

  Florence King
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• There must always be somebody. However young or insignificant. There has to be somebody who comes from nowhere to say what others are too foolish or too frightened to say.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff

• The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Miracle

• We stay in U2's hotel. They bought a hotel, The Clarence, a nice place and it's in an area where everything's happening, so many fantastic restaurants and bars and the people are so friendly.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
  • People
  • Nice

• Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

  

  Avi Arad
  • Heart
  • Movie

• I would make a few jabs at myself and go for the audience - they are still as flawed as ever.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli

• War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

  

  Charles Evans Hughes
  • War

• I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut

• I chose a career in medicine because I wanted a tangible skill with which to serve people. And so my role as a physician is my attempt to do that.

  

  Kent Brantly
  • People
  • Career

• When I have a good pair of shoes, I wear them over and over. Whether it's nice sneakers or a cool pair of combat boots, splurge on a pair you love that you can wear over and over with totally different outfits.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • Good
  • Different
  • Nice

• One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Great
  • Help

• I always needed money when I was younger. I had different ways of getting it. A lot of the ways I don't like to talk about.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Different
  • Money

• My parents have always been very concerned of making sure we know who we are and where we come from. I have to give them credit for that. Knowing your roots is quite important.

  

  Dilshad Vadsaria
  • Important
  • Parents

• Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident, or miscalculation, or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • May
  • War
  • Today

• He came to see me, but nary a sign of a dog or a chest of drawers. He did not even ask me what I wanted for my birthday. So I bought some jewelry for myself. A necklace, earrings, and a matching ring, all for 50 marks. All very pretty, and I hope he likes it. If he doesn't, then he should choose something for me himself.

  

  Eva Braun
  • Hope
  • Dog
  • Choose

• Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.

  

  Isabel Gillies
  • Help
  • Heartbreak
  • Cookbooks

• There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Kings
  • Divinity
  • Treason

• It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.

  

  Esperanza Spalding
  • Art
  • Chance
  • Chooses

• I'm like a pitcher in the bullpen, keeping my arm warm. When they call me, I'll be ready to go.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Pitcher