Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1706 - April 17, 1790

Topics

HideTalentsShadeYourMadeUse

I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.

Jesse Eisenberg

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Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

John Banville

LifeTragicComicEqually

Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.

Jennifer Haigh

LifeRealityKnowKindTrueLike

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

WordsYouGoKnowRealSee

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Jean-Paul Sartre

MenMeGoBecomeFarInterests

My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

Riz Ahmed

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Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

Mason Cooley

MotherListeningAlwaysHeHis

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

Donna Mills

HatGoAlwaysAgainstBecauseGrain

We saw a need to develop a community for artists to get their music out to the masses. With MySpace, when they went out on tour, they could actually tour nationally. The band might have 20,000 friends on their list and send out a bulletin saying, 'I'm going to be in Austin on Tuesday night. Come see our show.'

Chris DeWolfe

MusicCommunityNightSayingFriends

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

David Warner

HappyBe HappyThinkActorTyrant

I'm among the many Chicagoans who love to take advantage of the opportunity to dine outdoors in the summer months.

Christie Hefner

LoveOpportunityOutdoorsSummerWho

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

Christina Ricci

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