Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE People want a beautiful story. Hopefully my life story is still beautiful, but that metro stuff does...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really r...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I just wanted to eat, to survive. I started singing a cappella in bars. I saved up money to get my f...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE When I think about Edmonton, Silver Street and Pymmes Park, the old people whose faces are so unhapp...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE If you live in central London, that's probably fine for you, but in places like Edmonton, where ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I don't think I'm a singer, I think I'm an expressionist. But it takes time to put it in...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are her...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well th...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I'm a very honest person, and I'm quite emotional for a man. If I want to say something, I&#...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I personally wouldn't want my second album to sound like my first; it might sound very rocky or ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I clearly remember my father cutting our jumpers and our sports clothes with scissors - because he d...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I know that New York is big - there are huge buildings - but, in fact, it's quite small and cont...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE The meaning of love is obviously huge - but for me, it means be nice to people, and people will be n...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I would describe myself as outspoken. Not political. Outspoken about what I want to say. There are t...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE The minute I stop singing, I'm back to being shy. I'm soft-spoken because I never really tal...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wantin...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE Sometimes it feels like my story overshadows my music.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I believe when the music is being sung or being played, at the end of it, there's some sort of g...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE Personally, I wouldn't mind going on stage naked, totally naked.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but ...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I've learned in the little bit of my life so far that you can't fool people. And so I only t...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE When I was a kid, I remember seeing Michael Jackson. I thought he was an alien. You don't grow u...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you l...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE Life is life. You have to learn how to forgive people and how to gain forgiveness for yourself.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I realised that we're all equal - it's all about helping each other.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD [Chowder] breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of go...
CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I hav...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS I stopped going to therapy
because I knew my therapist was right
and I wanted to keep bein...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS I will love you when you are a still day.
I will love you when you are a hurricane.
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS It’s 11 am and I’m sitting in a restaurant
3 beers in. Believe me, even I’m surprised <...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS But my heart is an old house
(the kind my mother
grew up in)
hell to heat and cool CLEMENTINE VON RADICS A long time ago, before I even met you,
someone replaced my chest with a broken record.
...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS I pity the woman who will love you
when I am done. She will show up
to your first date wit...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS I know
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have t...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS If anyone else were to kiss me, all they would taste is your name.
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS Here’s the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love with someone else.
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at
with a mouth...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS There will always be those
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen ...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS All this time
I drank you like the cure when maybe
you were the poison.
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS He never broke my heart. He only turned it into a compass that always points me back to him.
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS He used to love me, and now he’s just a stranger who happens to know all my secrets.
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
WALTER BENJAMIN Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have th...
BENJAMIN HARRISON Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
BENJAMIN JOWETT If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori...
WALTER BENJAMIN All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
WALTER BENJAMIN Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When in doubt, don't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Lost time is never found again.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in...
BENJAMIN HARRISON A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
OWEN BENJAMIN I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children'...
OWEN BENJAMIN To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
OWEN BENJAMIN Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Hunger is the best pickle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The bud of victory is always in the truth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN When you go to work, you are a Christian at your workplace. You're not a broadcaster who happens...
BENJAMIN WATSON I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up a...
BENJAMIN PERCY Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
BENJAMIN JOWETT My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
BENJAMIN JOWETT Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of t...
BENJAMIN JOWETT There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become...
BENJAMIN JOWETT The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
BENJAMIN JOWETT We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always ...
BENJAMIN JOWETT Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
BENJAMIN JOWETT You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you...
BENJAMIN JOWETT One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
BENJAMIN JOWETT Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it wo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make...
BENJAMIN COHEN Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply t...
BENJAMIN TILLETT I think, over the time that you're in the league, you learn what your body needs: you learn the ...
BENJAMIN WATSON Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abs...
BENJAMIN WIKER Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from th...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessar...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never confuse motion with action.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told t...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orat...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Never complain and never explain.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous Pe...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
BENJAMIN DISRAELI There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
BENJAMIN SPOCK I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Na...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sir, I say that justice is truth in action
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when chi...
BENJAMIN SPOCK Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for somethin...
BENJAMIN SPOCK The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation
BENJAMIN SPOCK When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable
BENJAMIN SPOCK What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after a...
BENJAMIN SPOCK You know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out ...
BENJAMIN JOWETT We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.
BENJAMIN JOWETT When a man listens to the voice of the tempter within him, he is inclined to do as others do, not to...
BENJAMIN JOWETT One use of prayer is to maintain in us a higher standard and prevent our principles insensibly sinki...
BENJAMIN JOWETT An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own childr...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success wh...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tenden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
BENJAMIN SPOCK There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.
WALTER BENJAMIN There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN One today is worth two tomorrows.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Marriage is a wonderful institution... but who wants to live in an institution?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN