#thing

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#beginning #casting #dross #everything #fifteen

I never look at things again once they're done. ↗

— Brian Michael Bendis

#done #i #look #never #once

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#becoming #difficult #found #i #i write

Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#feel #freedom #help #impotence #international

And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen." ↗

— Annette Bening

#anything #audience #haven #i #i love

I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way. ↗

— Annette Bening

#competing #competition #even #get #going

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#beauty #could #good #good thing #happiness

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#borrowed #death #everything #his #sanction

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ↗

— Tony Benn

#life #lifetime #moment #moments #most

I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something. ↗