Benjamin Banneker Quotes

Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

Benjamin Banneker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 9, 1731 - October 9, 1806

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TimeMeDoorSmallGunHouse

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

John Hawkes

FearMyselfMeComplacencyFeelNow

I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.

John Malkovich

LifeGreatMoneySchoolPeopleMind

Thanks to Twitter, Reddit, web media, and social media, we have the opportunity now to kind of blur that line between the people who produce the content, the people that watch it, and instead make it a conversation, make it a real community.

Matthew Mercer

OpportunityCommunitySocial Media

It's not the actor's job to be interesting; that's the script's job. It's our job to be truthful and brave.

Mia Goth

JobBraveInterestingActorTruthful

People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.

Stella McCartney

LivePeopleStrongThinkThought

What is magical and mystifying to me about style is not that by seeing we can believe. It is that eventually, we can believe, because we can see... we can embrace change the more we can make it tangible.

Stacy London

ChangeStyleMeBelieveSeeingSee

One of the first rules of playing the power game is that all bad news must be accepted calmly, as if one already knew and didn't care.

Michael Korda

PowerGameCareBadRulesNews

People's interest is in the product, not in its authorship.

Jonathan Ive

PeopleProductInterestAuthorship

There is nothing in this world that I fear to say.

Dmitri Mendeleev

FearWorldSayNothing

My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch 'Come Dancing.' It was actually my granny who was the biggest fan; she loved the show, and she passed on her passion for it to me. I loved the dancing but also the frocks and the glamour.

Cherie Lunghi

PassionMeLovedSheGlamourTurn

If you are watching a fairy tale, that's why you go to fairy tales: you want these uncomplicated stories and uncomplicated characters. But if it's meant to be real life, you want there to be some reflection of your experience and have something you can hook into.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

LifeReflectionExperienceFairy Tale

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

William T. Wiley

EducationAgeCreativeThinkArtist

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