#u

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. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#i #percent #something #top

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. ↗

— Tony Benn

#fifty #file #library #public #public library

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#community #obey #off #people #rules

My films are about embarrassment. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#embarrassment #films

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#concentrate #even #going #had #keep

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

If you can take my tax money and assure me that it'll go to the right purpose, that it will help the poor, then fine. But I'm not sure a lot of it does. In fact, I know a lot of it doesn't. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#does #fact #fine #go #help

It there any nation that acknowledges its errors and its sins and its crimes and the things it has done that are not consistent with its principles more than the United States? No, there is not. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#consistent #crimes #done #errors #more

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#mayonnaise #place #religion #sauces #serve