Brook Benton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Nobody told me you were cheating, it's just a feeling I had. So if I'm right, you got to lie to me, then I won't feel so bad.
-- Brook Benton

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Lord, I believe it's raining all over the world.
-- Brook Benton

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One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.
-- Brook Benton

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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.
The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.
One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.
I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.
The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.
Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.

Brook Benton famous quotes

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