Robert Benchley Quotes

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

Robert Benchley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkMomentDoingHeSupposedAny

Sometimes I'm asked if I do research for my stories. The answer is yes and no. No, in the sense that I seldom plow through books at the library to gather material. Yes, in the sense that the first fifteen years of my life turned out to be one big research project.

Jerry Spinelli

LifeResearchLibraryMy LifeFirst

I think my dad did legal work for someone who had a Packard Bell 8088, and they couldn't pay him, so they gave him a computer. I was initially not allowed to touch it, but that didn't last long. I started tinkering with it, and there were many times I screwed up the computer.

Jeremy Stoppelman

WorkThinkLegalSomeoneLongTouch

I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one.

John Elway

LostThreeNeverAlwaysMontanaGot

I find Instagram interesting to the extent that new royal families are born and die there, such as The Kardashians of L.A.

Maurizio Cattelan

InterestingDieFindBornNewRoyal

I have lots of memories of staying at campsites in the West Country and France, of the Carpenters playing on the eight-track, and of my dad cursing under the broken-down VW camper van. I loved camping, but I wouldn't much fancy it now - I'm too old to rough it.

Steven Mackintosh

MemoriesLovedCountryNowOldWest

You don't sit there at twenty-five, unpublished, inexperienced, and respond to Susan Sontag's editorial suggestions like a little snot, rejecting every one of them. But it had a lot to do with the fact that I didn't admire Susan's own fiction.

Sigrid Nunez

YouAdmireFictionRespondOwnSit

Outside of a few national security issues like treason that the Constitution lays out, we don't need federal crimes, and we don't need federal prisons. We need state crimes and state prisons.

Rob Woodall

ConstitutionSecurityOutsideNeed

Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

Rita Dove

EndPlayPleasureRapWholeOnly

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

Mary Ritter Beard

TravelSurpriseNobodyGoMeetUs

Don't sell your publishing.

Michelle Phillips

SellYourPublishing

My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.

Jason Aldean

GoodJobMomDoingEnoughFinding

If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

Jonny Greenwood

FutureMusicPeopleThinkOutGet

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