Benny Carter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.
It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself
He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.
I made my first movie when I was five.

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