Stephen Vincent Benet Quotes

A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EyesManMountainMouthPrimeLike

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

Jessye Norman

LifeChildrenExperienceMindWorld

Directing is like meeting a woman. You don't know her, but something strikes you, and then you just have to go into it.

Maximilian Schell

WomanYouMeetingGoKnowSomething

Thinking fascinates me, and I probably spend too much time in my mind. My wife says that my perfect world is to be in the Suburban driving, with her next to me and the boys in the back seat and complete silence for two thousand miles.

John Larroquette

TimeWifeSilenceMindMeWorld

Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.

John Lithgow

ComedyAchieveHardVery

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Robert Herrick

LifeManVirtueStriveFirstTwice

John Wayne was one of the greatest ambassadors for the United States that ever lived.

Maureen O'Hara

LivedUnitedGreatestUnited States

I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.

Matt Groening

GoWantTopOutUs

I dislike the gym, but I'll chase a tennis ball all day.

Matt Kuchar

DayGymTennisBallDislikeChase

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

PoliticsWomanManMeWorldMay

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

TimeTwoDividedBooksHourClasses

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

NatureVoiceBornEarthOthersAir

Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.

Story Musgrave

NatureCommunicationGodYouWant

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