Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Crenshaw

The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don't think there's anything like it in North America.

Ben Crenshaw

I do not think I could go on living unless I felt that one day I might win the Open Championship at St. Andrews.

Ben Fountain

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

Ben Fountain

Maybe the light's at the other end of the tunnel.

Ben Fountain

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life.

Ben Gibbard

Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it's just because they love doing it and they love each other and that's the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV.

Ben Gibbard

I think sometimes a narrative can come out of a single word.

Ben Gibbard

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

Ben Gibbard

I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.

Ben E. King

People abroad always tend to take what the best of what we have and come back through the back door always, say, and hit us with it. And then we wake up one day and say, I think I've heard that. Yeah, it was done by whoever, you know. So, ah, that's been one of our weaknesses we don't tend to hold on as they do there.

Ben E. King

Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.

Ben Falcone

The one thing I did know - because I've seen many, many of the road trip movies that everyone thinks about - is that death to a road trip movie happens when you spend too much time in the car.

Ben Elton

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

Ben Elton

You think I look like a teletubby?

Ben Folds

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.

Barry Hannah

There was no one, when I was in school, who talked about going in and blowing up students. The teachers were very stern and hateable, but nobody ever mentioned murder.

Barry Eichengreen

While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult,

Barry Long

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?.

Barry Long

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

Barry Long

You must not believe anyone in the search for truth; you have to find out for yourself. But although you are on your own, help will come when it is really needed.

Barry Long

You think, you become that thought. And consciousness, or the state of pure awareness, is lost.

Barry Long

Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognised by the person ready to discover it.

Barry Long

The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct when you think about something in the future. The future exists only in imagination; and that is why, no matter how hard you try to imagine it, you will not be able to predict the future with total certainty.

Barry Long

It is a little known fact that truth cannot be memorized. Truth has to be discovered now, from moment to moment. It is always fresh, always new, always there for the still, innocent mind that has experienced life without needing to hold on to what has gone before.

Carl von Clausewitz

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Carl Sandburg

The machine yes the machine never wastes anybody's time never watches the foreman never talks back.

Carl Sandburg

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

Carl Sandburg

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

Carl Sandburg

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

Carl Sandburg

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

Carl Sandburg

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear it? What was it?'

Carl Sandburg

The woman named Tomorrow sits with a hairpin in her teeth and takes her time