Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes

You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 22, 1898 - March 13, 1943

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Everybody knows I return all of my phone calls. I pick up my cell phone myself, much to the chagrin of my staff.

Joe Lhota

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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce

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As you have more resources in life, it's your obligation to deploy those for the benefit of others.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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My bread and croissants wouldn't win a prize! I'm not an expert in yeast cookery.

Mary Berry

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I'm not allowed to buy advertising for my book '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' on Facebook because, according to their representative, they have received complaints about the word 'hate' in my book title.

Mike Gallagher

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I believe I can sing anything.

Miriam Makeba

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There are always different roles and questions to be asked about certain characters.

Dennis Haysbert

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A sheepdog trial is the most difficult test of a man and dog ever devised.

Donald McCaig

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I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.

Brittany Bowe

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If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.

Princess Diana

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It's true: one of the things that I've always thought about American society is that you never get the sort of natural politicisation of class consciousness that you would get in the United Kingdom or even in Australia.

Peter Carey

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Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that.

Sean Penn

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