Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
ALAN BENNETT I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.
ALAN BENNETT We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch...
ALAN BENNETT I'm less genial than people think, but I'm too timid to seem nasty.
ALAN BENNETT I can't complain that I've had a public all through my writing life, but people don't qu...
ALAN BENNETT I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fall...
ALAN BENNETT I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT I do not long for the world as it was when I was a child. I do not long for the person I was in that...
ALAN BENNETT All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
ALAN BENNETT We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's...
ALAN BENNETT Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
ALAN BENNETT I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The...
ALAN BENNETT Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?
ALAN BENNETT Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
ALAN BENNETT Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception...
ALAN BENNETT Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; o...
ALAN BENNETT Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
ALAN BENNETT No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it p...
ALAN BENNETT I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control.
ALAN BENNETT Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key
ALAN BENNETT Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key
ALAN BENNETT This symposium will highlight the surprisingly diverse and positive role that cocoa can potentially ...
ALAN BENNETT The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of lo...
ALAN BENNETT I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In...
ALAN BENNETT Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk ...
ALAN BENNETT Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
ALAN BENNETT We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETT I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, wi...
ALAN BENNETT The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we...
ALAN BENNETT Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quit...
ALAN BENNETT If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
ALAN BENNETT We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
ALAN BENNETT The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about l...
ALAN BENNETT Life is rather like a tin of sardines, we're all of us looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunda...
ALAN BENNETT Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on ...
ALAN BENNETT And it occurred to her that reading was, among other things, a muscle and one that she had seemingly...
ALAN BENNETT I don't always understand poetry!'

'You don't always understand it? Timms, I never unders...
ALAN BENNETT History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? Histor...
ALAN BENNETT How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another
ALAN BENNETT He's so eccentric -- physically, and he's so funny.
ALAN BENNETT I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea...
ALAN BENNETT We have smaller defensive ends, but they're quick. They'll be OK. Everybody knows their job, and our...
ALAN BENNETT Last year we were more of a running team. This year we're more versatile.
ALAN BENNETT Papers like the Mail make out that people are prurient and outraged; I don't think people really car...
ALAN BENNETT He says some things which are taken as gospel, when they ought to be disputed. When he writes 'Coura...
ALAN BENNETT [B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and t...
ALAN BENNETT Hey, this is exciting. At least we'll always remember this anniversary.
ALAN BENNETT . . . there was little to choose between Jews and Catholics. The Jews had holidays that turned up o...
ALAN BENNETT A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a l...
ALAN BENNETT Full-blooded romantic love I wouldn't be able to write about.
ALAN BENNETT Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to ...
ALAN BENNETT I note at the age of ten a fully developed ability not quite to enjoy myself, a capacity I have reta...
ALAN BENNETT What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned an...
ALAN BENNETT Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
ALAN BENNETT It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not hav...
ALAN BENNETT A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
ALAN BENNETT Dakin: The more you read, though, the more you'll see that literature is actually about losers.
ALAN BENNETT Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But wh...
TONY BENNETT The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
BENNETT CERF It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you're different than anyone else.
TONY BENNETT If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
BO BENNETT When it comes to success, there are no shortcuts.
BO BENNETT Affiliate marketing has made businesses millions and ordinary people millionaires.
BO BENNETT An objection is not a rejection; it is simply a request for more information.
BO BENNETT Visualization is daydreaming with a purpose.
BO BENNETT Martial arts is not about fighting; it's about building character.
BO BENNETT Success is not in what you have, but who you are.
BO BENNETT A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
BO BENNETT Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master...
BO BENNETT Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
BO BENNETT Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.
BO BENNETT A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success.
BO BENNETT I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
MANU BENNETT The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
MANU BENNETT I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
MANU BENNETT To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.
MANU BENNETT Food is the essential thing to gaining weight. Protein, you know, that's basically it - protein.
MANU BENNETT The fitness builds the foundation for me as an actor to have clarity. Fitness has always been the ba...
MANU BENNETT If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it a...
MANU BENNETT The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are star...
MANU BENNETT I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at sch...
MANU BENNETT I myself have felt the wrath of the media, but that's part of what a good democracy is.
NAFTALI BENNETT Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the...
NAFTALI BENNETT I want the world to understand that a Palestinian state means no Israeli state. That's the equat...
NAFTALI BENNETT I love the people of Israel. I love the land of Israel. I love the Torah of Israel. I love the Israe...
NAFTALI BENNETT Israel, contrary to most of the West, has a high fertility rate, so there's a lot of young peopl...
NAFTALI BENNETT When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
NAFTALI BENNETT Netanyahu supports - and he truly does support - building a Palestinian state within Israel.
NAFTALI BENNETT There's 2 million Palestinians that govern themselves. They have their own parliament, their own...
NAFTALI BENNETT What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, thro...
NAFTALI BENNETT I state in no uncertain terms: An order to uproot an Arab village or a Jewish settlement violates th...
NAFTALI BENNETT There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.
NAFTALI BENNETT You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be...
NAFTALI BENNETT The whole Land of Israel is a single bloc. There are those who say we can build inside the settlemen...
NAFTALI BENNETT I'm not prepared to give up the truth for popularity.
NAFTALI BENNETT Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its bor...
NAFTALI BENNETT You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
NAFTALI BENNETT I want every Israeli child, secular and religious, to know about Moses, about Maimonides, about Yoni...
NAFTALI BENNETT The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.
NAFTALI BENNETT Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerla...
NAFTALI BENNETT The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hop...
NAFTALI BENNETT Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as...
NAFTALI BENNETT The term 'demilitarized Palestinian state' is an oxymoron.
NAFTALI BENNETT Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, ...
BO BENNETT To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, presen...
BO BENNETT If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employe...
BO BENNETT It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing...
BO BENNETT In sales, a referral is the key to the door of resistance.
BO BENNETT A single question can be more influential than a thousand statements.
BO BENNETT Gross ignorance: 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
BENNETT CERF I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not som...
HALEY BENNETT I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
HALEY BENNETT I love to dress up and create a narrative with my look.
HALEY BENNETT I prefer clean silhouettes that are almost utilitarian, but I'm not afraid to take risks on the ...
HALEY BENNETT I want to have a long career.
HALEY BENNETT I have a thousands wants; it's hard to really hone in on just a few.
HALEY BENNETT I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. ...
HALEY BENNETT I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent st...
HALEY BENNETT I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives ...
HALEY BENNETT I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's li...
HALEY BENNETT When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrenc...
HALEY BENNETT I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.
HALEY BENNETT I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
HALEY BENNETT I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.
HALEY BENNETT I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way t...
HALEY BENNETT Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and ...
HALEY BENNETT We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.
HALEY BENNETT I used to be a night owl. I no longer am a night owl.
HALEY BENNETT I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
HALEY BENNETT I think it's important to surrender to situations that take you out of your comfort zone.
HALEY BENNETT Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and mora...
WILLIAM BENNETT As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
BECK BENNETT I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
BECK BENNETT Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They&#...
BECK BENNETT I would definitely like to start working with more people over age 7.
BECK BENNETT Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who ha...
BECK BENNETT Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 The reason that the Ten Commandments...
DAN BENNETT The visitor never really engaged with the story the way we would do today in terms of living history...
ALEXANDER BENNETT Our mission is to restore the site to that condition, in 1746. That clearly means some fairly major ...
ALEXANDER BENNETT All these years in the Highlands & Islands, nobody has delved into this area. People have written ab...
ALEXANDER BENNETT The visitor never really engaged with the story the way we would do today â€â�...
ALEXANDER BENNETT When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them wor...
ROY BENNETT Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up.
ROY BENNETT Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations bui...
ROY BENNETT Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.
ROY BENNETT Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and ...
ROY BENNETT Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.
ROY BENNETT To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.
ROY BENNETT Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.
ROY BENNETT People are successful because they think and act like successful people.
ROY BENNETT Don’t wait for things to happen. Make them happen.
ROY BENNETT Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.
ROY BENNETT When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes an...
ROY BENNETT We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses...
ROY BENNETT If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your c...
ROY BENNETT Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. Y...
ROY BENNETT There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, ne...
ROY BENNETT The ultimate form of forgiveness is in comprehending there’s nothing to forgive.
ROY BENNETT Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happie...
ROY BENNETT Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
JILL BENNETT There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous...
BO BENNETT Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be...
ARNOLD BENNETT You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the mag...
ARNOLD BENNETT Confusing the words wish, faith and pray with each other usually just results i...
BO BENNETT Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.
ARNOLD BENNETT Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
ARNOLD BENNETT The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valua...
BO BENNETT It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparin...
BO BENNETT I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out an...
TONY BENNETT Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows...
ARNOLD BENNETT It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they a...
ARNOLD BENNETT The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods ...
ARNOLD BENNETT We need a sense of the value of time -- that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's var...
ARNOLD BENNETT A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin...
ARNOLD BENNETT Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.
ARNOLD BENNETT Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Al...
ARNOLD BENNETT The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world...
ARNOLD BENNETT If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient liv...
ARNOLD BENNETT It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
TONY BENNETT All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
ARNOLD BENNETT Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The g...
ARNOLD BENNETT Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret func...
ARNOLD BENNETT The price of Justice is eternal publicity.
ARNOLD BENNETT It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike a...
ARNOLD BENNETT Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
ARNOLD BENNETT Avoiding the phrase
BO BENNETT A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
BO BENNETT There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blam...
ARNOLD BENNETT While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happines...
BO BENNETT To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...
ARNOLD BENNETT It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
JESSE BENNETT Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ing...
ARNOLD BENNETT Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of avera...
ARNOLD BENNETT Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
BO BENNETT Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman, Who came of decent people; He built a church in Dublin town,...
HENRY BENNETT