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Peter Benchley Quotes

If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: May 8, 1940 - February 11, 2006

Topics

Day Believe You Young Nothing Wild

Corruption happens because there is impunity. That's the reason why corruption is widespread at all levels - from the person who asks for a bribe on the street to those who hold prominent positions.

Corruption Person Street Why Reason

I learned what I need to do in the long jump, what I needed to do in the javelin and I've been able to rectify those events. It's been a bit of a learning curve, which is good.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

Learning Good Long Jump Events Need

I certainly love getting to know the babies if I'm going to be working with them.

Love Know Going Working Babies Them

I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.

Day Desk Facebook Stay Checking

My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45.

Father Mother Faith Time Me Warm

I like the old, classic scary movies. I love 'Psycho,' 'The Sixth Sense,' and 'Poltergeist.'

Miranda Cosgrove

Love Movies Classic Old Scary Sense

All the time, I'm watching relationships.

Time Relationships Watching

The PRI portrays itself as the force of the center, of stability.

Stability Force Center Itself

I have a wish. It as a fear as well - that in my end will be my beginning.

Fear Beginning End Wish Will Well

Men invent means and methods of coming at God's love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God's presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him?

Brother Lawrence

Love Business God Men Simple World

To be famous these days with no grounding and no substance is not especially difficult. I urge you instead to seek to be relevant, to be agile and educated.

Famous You Difficult Educated Days

I'd like to be a three-time Olympian.

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