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Robert Benchley Quotes

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

Robert Benchley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Children Pet Child Small Way Dogs

Listening is not just hearing what someone tells you word for word. You have to listen with a heart. I don't want that to sound touchy-feely; it is not. It is very hard work.

Anna Deavere Smith

Work Hard Work Heart Listening You

But You never reject a repentant and humble heart.

Alphonsus Liguori

Heart Humble You Never Reject

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'

Stephen Moyer

Teen Think Twilight Things Worse

The woeful tales of 'Super Mario Bros.' and 'Street Fighter' have taught studios that merely slapping a name to a movie is not enough to bring in the fans of the franchise. Also, the way games now unfold their stories more parallels that of a movie, with characters and plot points actually meaning as much as a high score.

Rob Manuel

Name Enough Meaning Now Street Way

Reconstruction is the great black hole that remains to be filled. Even experts on the Civil War don't really understand its full significance.

Ron Chernow

Great War Black Understand Civil War

If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People's dreams don't come true like that.

Ronda Rousey

Home Dreams People Win Down True

I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne.

Mary Beard

Power Think Unexpected Create Why

In Ghana, most of the women I know do not identify as sexy, and the reason may be cultural. With imported beauty standards from the West, it seems that many African women feel they need to be fair and slim to be beautiful.

Philomena Kwao

Beauty Women Beautiful Sexy Feel

The Iraq I returned from was, in my mind, a fairly simple place. By which I mean it had little relationship to reality. It's only with time and the help of smart, empathetic friends willing to pull through many serious conversations that I've been able to learn more about what I witnessed.

Phil Klay

Relationship Time Simple Smart Mind

There are only three indispensable things: the audience, the actor and the author. The rest is dross.

Peter O'Toole

Rest Three Actor Audience Things

Nothing matters more than your health. Healthy living is priceless. What millionaire wouldn't pay dearly for an extra 10 or 20 years of healthy aging?

Peter Diamandis

Health Aging Healthy Living Nothing

The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.

Tim O'Brien

Me World Rest You Forget Sometimes