E. F. Benson Quotes

Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence.

E. F. Benson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: July 24, 1867 - February 29, 1940

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Graphic public service announcements about texting and driving or drinking and driving serve a purpose: to see the imagery in your mind so your behavior will change.

Mel Robbins

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I acted in a couple friends's short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware.

Max Winkler

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News, after all, is a spin of words and pictures. It's a kind of music. There are beats in a newscast, a newspaper story. Ed Murrow sounded like Ed Murrow. Huntley and Brinkley sounded different. Anderson Cooper, different still.

Robert Krulwich

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Acting advice is a bit like your parents teaching you how to drive a car. You know they're right, but you still kind of want them to shut up a bit.

Max Irons

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More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

Amelie Nothomb

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An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Spiro T. Agnew

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I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.

Robert Wyatt

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I'm a really good juggler.

Lucy Hale

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To all my fans who planned to come to the Future History World tour, the pain of letting you down cuts me way deeper than this injury I've sustained.

Jason Derulo

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My father was a director and producer, so when I was a little kid, he would take me to movies and show me what's good and what's not good and why, and often that would take me to a conversation about directing.

Jason Bateman

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I think it would be nice to be a prince.

Dee Dee Ramone

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There was a time when all I cared about was the next game, the next party, the next tee time.

Brett Favre

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