Robert Benchley Quotes

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Robert Benchley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: comedian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 15, 1889 - November 21, 1945

Topics

FunnyGreatKnowNothingThings

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

John Major

PeaceMindPresidentWhateverPretty

I'm very comfortable being at home and keeping my head down, really. It's nice being invited to night clubs and stuff, which is nice once in a while, but I prefer to kind of keep to myself.

Matthew Lewis

HomeMyselfNightDownNiceKind

When you go through some controversy and you see your face on the news in a negative way for 48 hours... you doubt yourself. And your friends make the difference. They become a safety net that come in and say, 'That's not the case.' And the relationships that you've built... come to the fore.

Stanley A. McChrystal

YourselfSafetyNegativeFaceYou

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

Jonathan Sacks

HistoryResponsibilityDayGrowSay

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

Donald L. Carcieri

CompromiseAmericanDebateHealthy

My family is a little ridiculous. They're wild - really colorful and animated and big personalities.

Christen Press

FamilyRidiculousColorfulWildBig

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

Phil Donahue

DoubtRebellionDevotionCertainty

I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.

Shiloh Walker

ThankfulSchoolHigh SchoolHandInk

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.

Kristen Stewart

AgeTimeMyselfI AmPeopleStrong

I'm a regular guy, and I don't want anyone to look at me as being superior or having a God complex or anything like that, you know? I don't want to walk around like I know everything, because I have so much more room to improve.

Khalid

GodWalkMeYouLookKnow

The thing is, every relationship is different, and when you start talking about your problems, other people tend to talk about theirs.

Khloe Kardashian

RelationshipPeopleStartProblems

Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.'

Julie Burchill

LoveWomenMenQuestionImmature

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