Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which...
SAINT Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute ...
DIRK BENEDICT There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The only difference from one $100 million budget film to another is which of the 12 box stars are ge...
DIRK BENEDICT Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not e...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it...
DIRK BENEDICT The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone i...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day...
RUTH BENEDICT Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak...
RUTH BENEDICT No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs an...
RUTH BENEDICT If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves...
RUTH BENEDICT A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active...
RUTH BENEDICT We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
RUTH BENEDICT Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
RUTH BENEDICT The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They ...
RUTH BENEDICT I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. ...
BENEDICT SPINOZA We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on t...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap y...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standa...
RUTH BENEDICT I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was act...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see ...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorro...
DIRK BENEDICT I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
RUTH BENEDICT I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with inter...
DIRK BENEDICT Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Christianity is always called to seek justice, but it bears within the impulse of love, that goes be...
BENEDICT XVI Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental...
BENEDICT XVI This unbounded and almost incomprehensible love of God for man shows to what point the human person ...
BENEDICT XVI To welcome the Redeemer in his life is for man a source of profound joy, a joy that can give peace e...
BENEDICT XVI The service that may be offered to the faithful and non-Christian spouses who are going through diff...
BENEDICT XVI These children have suffered a most violent trauma. We must help them to be able to forget the trage...
BENEDICT XVI I am certain that I echo your own thoughts when I bring up as one of our concerns the spread of terr...
BENEDICT XVI These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America...
BENEDICT XVI A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the...
BENEDICT XVI Just as the life of Jesus, in his obedience and dedication to the Father, is a living parable of the...
BENEDICT XVI Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
BENEDICT SPINOZA None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BENEDICT SPINOZA Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things...
BENEDICT SPINOZA If facts conflict with a theory, either the theory must be changed or the facts.
BENEDICT SPINOZA All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
BENEDICT SPINOZA None are more taken in with flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
BENEDICT SPINOZA Desire is the essence of a man.
BENEDICT SPINOZA He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody.
BENEDICT LUCCHESI He is telling Merck that you have to be careful. You can't just give (Cox-2s) to everybody,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI Merck has been extremely good to me over the years,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI [The researcher was warning that] you can't just give this to anybody, ... You have to identify peop...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI They don't mind killing patients,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI They are trying to tell the leadership (about the risks) before they go out and launch this drug to ...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI I don't know that I owe them an apology,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI Based on the science, there's every reason to believe that a single dose, multiple doses, whatever, ...
BENEDICT LUCCHESI When I first read that, I personally became enraged,
BENEDICT LUCCHESI We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seam...
BENEDICT ARNOLD Great numbers of Canadians... are determined to join us whenever we appear in the Country with any f...
BENEDICT ARNOLD If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain ...
BENEDICT ARNOLD Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our A...
BENEDICT ARNOLD I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a d...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended...
DIRK BENEDICT My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very se...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or bet...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' a...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
RUTH BENEDICT I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the sta...
DIRK BENEDICT Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.
DIRK BENEDICT It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don&#...
DIRK BENEDICT Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don&#...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, ...
BENEDICT WONG I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life'...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one ...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH [on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a str...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can de...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm j...
BENEDICT WONG He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.
BENEDICT SPINOZA The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on beha...
RUTH BENEDICT I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very norm...
DIRK BENEDICT My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Seco...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi'...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
DIRK BENEDICT Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place ...
DIRK BENEDICT 'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I don’t sell spells, and I don’t sell tricks. I don’t carry illusions or marked cards or weigh...
BENEDICT JACKA As I walked, I started making a list of everyone in the mage world whom I’d opposed, fought with, ...
BENEDICT JACKA Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. O...
BENEDICT SPINOZA Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, conf...
BENEDICT SPINOZA Last night a power surge in SE1 upset the stage lighting and caused a delay. It did nothing to detra...
BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE Last night a power surge in SE1 upset the stage lighting and caused a delay,
BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE (William Inge) handles symbolism rather like an Olympic weight lifter, raising it with agonizing car...
BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE We are going to have jobs, water, light, food.
BENEDICT NEWON I never carry gun again. I have a future now. I gotta protect it. I gotta be patient with Ma Ellen.
BENEDICT NEWON I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
RUTH BENEDICT It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither me...
DIRK BENEDICT I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH That second one he hit, I think is the longest I've ever seen hit here. That was a no-doubter.
SCOTT BENEDICT One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised,...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I'd like to helm my own series. Something British.
BENEDICT WONG The second one was the longest I have seen hit to that part of the ballpark. He really got it up in ...
SCOTT BENEDICT When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It'...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to ...
RUTH BENEDICT I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
RUTH BENEDICT The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more ...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm n...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a ch...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH With my introduction to Miss Swanson and macrobiotics, I had become obsessed.
DIRK BENEDICT I wouldn't refuse stardom, recognition, acclaim. I had no axe to grind either way... I wasn't wishin...
DIRK BENEDICT Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides...
RUTH BENEDICT The trouble is not that we are never happy - it is that happiness is so episodical
RUTH BENEDICT The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
RUTH BENEDICT I live very much, try to, in the moment, and find whichever moment I'm in to be the best.
DIRK BENEDICT I personally don't think anybody should be allowed to write a screenplay UNTIL they are over 40. It ...
DIRK BENEDICT I consider my life one long string of failures, but all of the failure has made me more grateful to ...
DIRK BENEDICT It takes great technique, tremendous discipline and energy and practice, and damn few are capable. A...
DIRK BENEDICT Meat is bad. Sugar is bad. Chemicals are bad, bad, bad! I wanna be good, good good. So I will just s...
DIRK BENEDICT Many people are shy when it comes to getting out on a dance floor. Dancing is an activity that... re...
DIRK BENEDICT We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique vo...
DIRK BENEDICT It is marketing that makes films popular. Cross-marketing. Selling movies with hamburgers and Coke.
DIRK BENEDICT We do not see the lens through which we look
RUTH BENEDICT There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is reb...
DIRK BENEDICT It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That'...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors ...
DIRK BENEDICT I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me a...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The idea of turning into a reptile fascinated me. Other than that, my role was kind of... well, I do...
DIRK BENEDICT I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right p...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in Lond...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anyt...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The image changes completely when looking from side to side. You can see clearly one image over the ...
BILL BENEDICT A lot of printing techniques started to come together in the '90s. Now the technology is really grab...
BILL BENEDICT The technology is getting a new life.
BILL BENEDICT The response rate for the point-of-purchase store displays is 10 times higher than two-dimensional p...
BILL BENEDICT From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
DIRK BENEDICT I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and h...
DIRK BENEDICT You can never tire, never wilt-and become half-tyrant, half-psychiatrist, half-madman, and half-dead...
DIRK BENEDICT From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how...
DIRK BENEDICT We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed ou...
DIRK BENEDICT If there’s one thing all diviners share, it’s curiosity. We really can’t help it; it’s just ...
BENEDICT JACKA We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself ac...
RUTH BENEDICT I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the rig...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts.
DIRK BENEDICT The beef, venison and elk vibrations of my first 22 years were still very much controlling the natur...
DIRK BENEDICT In their arrogance, ABC wanted a number-one show. They wouldn't accept losing that time slot.
DIRK BENEDICT My son flipped. He loved it. He's 9 now, but he still loves reptiles. To this day, he's so proud tha...
DIRK BENEDICT Films are about emotions. They are, for the most part and certainly in today's mainstream film world...
DIRK BENEDICT As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventuall...
DIRK BENEDICT That's Hollywood. Boom! From star to forgotten actor.
DIRK BENEDICT I'm a classic example of what can happen if you follow your inner voice. I was cursed with interests...
DIRK BENEDICT I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.
DIRK BENEDICT I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifeti...
DIRK BENEDICT A talented writer can write women, men, dogs, pigs. They can write old people, young people. Does a ...
DIRK BENEDICT Someday I would love to publish the hundreds of letters I've received from people around the world, ...
DIRK BENEDICT I was the final word on everything. I wrote and directed. Complete cast approval. Every piece of mus...
DIRK BENEDICT People think surviving cancer is tough, or surviving a divorce, but NOTHING compares with fighting w...
DIRK BENEDICT I have my routine. I'm running 3 or 4 miles a day.
DIRK BENEDICT I am very much a person who enjoys mornings as much as evenings.
DIRK BENEDICT I am not simply an actor, but also have written books and now directed/written a film, I have some p...
DIRK BENEDICT Cassavetes would have been pleased with me. Truffaut, too, I think.
DIRK BENEDICT Today I spend more time making music than I do writing.
DIRK BENEDICT In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could jus...
DIRK BENEDICT I ALWAYS enjoy myself. And if I didn't enjoy myself in this experience, I should be locked away for ...
DIRK BENEDICT The media destroyed the show with all the hype. All the press worked against us. We didn't become th...
DIRK BENEDICT Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and ...
DIRK BENEDICT If you have talent as a screenwriter, it will out. Nothing succeeds like perseverance. Never give up...
DIRK BENEDICT I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult,...
DIRK BENEDICT Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent t...
DIRK BENEDICT That's the network mentality. They're always chasing the polls, trying to second-guess what the peop...
DIRK BENEDICT Sadly, there are no rules by which an actor learns his craft. Would that it were that easy. I spent ...
DIRK BENEDICT There isn't a place on Earth with the amount of beautiful ladies as LA. When you're young and starri...
DIRK BENEDICT My films went to numerous film festivals. I was stunned at how shallow the films were and how much a...
DIRK BENEDICT I enjoy writing nonfiction the most because one is limited only by one's imagination. Autobiography ...
DIRK BENEDICT If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the en...
DIRK BENEDICT Hollywood... damn well won't hire a writer over 40 unless he made his mark when he was under 30. Ame...
DIRK BENEDICT I woke myself up to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, that Mike was really beside me. I kissed the pill...
BENEDICT FREEDMAN . . . work even when I'm satisfied with it is never my child I love nor my servant I've brought to h...
RUTH BENEDICT Lines are very difficult to learn.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth.
THERESE BENEDICT LIFE: My favorite occupation.
DIRK BENEDICT It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily...
DIRK BENEDICT There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of abou...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH There is a divine moment in our lives when we all become one. It's called procreation, and it is...
DIRK BENEDICT One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised,...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun t...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the gir...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what ...
DIRK BENEDICT Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, ps...
DIRK BENEDICT When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, ...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a scree...
DIRK BENEDICT We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up.
BENEDICT WONG Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Pr...
BENEDICT WONG