Benches famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Anyone who's had a shower and hasn't ingested illegal narcotics within a couple of days stands out on a bench in the courthouse.
-- Alafair Burke -
We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes--and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
-- Alan Keyes -
There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.
-- Ann Brashares -
The substitutes are all on the bench, and that's where they'll start the match.
-- Barry Davies -
The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.
-- Beatrice Webb -
I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.
-- Charles Bukowski -
The American legal industry is a medieval guild in which the prosecutors, bar, and bench join hands to ensure that legal invoices are paid, no matter how excessive.
-- Conrad Black -
In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman
-- Constance Baker Motley -
I don't care what you bench. I care if you have friends and family you love, a career that you love, and helped someone you don't know today.
-- Dan John -
I desired to know why one person was ailing and his associate, eating at the same table, working in the same shop, at the same bench was not. Why? What difference was there in these two persons that caused one to have various diseases, while his partner escaped?
-- Daniel D. Palmer -
What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.
-- Daniel Keyes -
At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.
-- Dirk Benedict -
I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.
-- Eric Bana -
I don't want to be a passenger sitting on the bench not doing much, even in my older years.
-- Frank Lampard -
I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.
-- Frank Lampard -
If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.
-- Frank Robinson -
Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him; yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.
-- Henry Fielding -
Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.
-- J. Patrick Lewis -
There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.
-- Jane Harman -
Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.
-- John Jay Hooker -
Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'
-- John Muckler -
You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.
-- Keith Hernandez -
You can go to the gym, lift as many weights as you want, but if you can't bench press your duvet at fajr then it doesn't mean anything
-- Khalid Yasin -
For those of us who have been diagnosed with cancer, time is a precious commodity. The time and distance from the scientist's lab bench to the patient's bedside must be shortened.
-- Larry Lucchino -
Ally McCoist will always get you a goal, whether he's playing or on the bench.
-- Mark Hateley -
When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.
-- Michael Bloomberg -
I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.
-- Mills Lane -
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte -
My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.
-- Natalie Imbruglia -
There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.
-- O. Henry -
Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.
-- Paavo Haavikko -
Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.
-- Paul Weyrich -
I told him (Pete Rose, Jr.) who to watch. I said if you want to be a catcher, watch Johnny Bench. If you want to be a right-handed power hitter, watch Mike Schmidt. If you just want to be a hitter, watch me.
-- Pete Rose -
Manchester United will be hoping their bench can come off the bench
-- Ray Parlour -
To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.
-- Rick Majerus -
It's easy to have chemistry when nobody is sitting on the bench.
-- Shaka -
I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.
-- Sparky Anderson -
And the problem is once you get into this campaign business and begin to have a lot of money, then the person on the bench begins to think - what's going to happen if I decide the case this way or that way?
-- Stephen Breyer -
I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet, not on the edge of a folding chair with a full bladder. I can't stand hearing a poem that I can't see. I did a reading at Wayne State, and it ended with the comedy such occasions deserve. I'd seated myself on a piano bench, and discovered upon attempting to arise at the end that the varnish had softened and I was stuck fast. The hinge was to the front, under my knees, so that as I tried to get up, I merely opened the lid.
-- Ted Kooser -
If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.
-- Tisha Venturini -
All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
-- Vita Sackville-West -
Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.
-- Walter Moers -
In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.
-- William Howard Taft -
The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.
-- William S. Knudsen -
...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.
-- Clive Ponting -
If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.
-- Deborah Rhode -
I designed a bench in a few moments. But, of course, it took me 25 years to do it.
-- Mario Bellini -
Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is considered? True gardeners, with their peerless taste, dexterity and inspired planting, never stop . . . To sit is almost an offence, a sign of depravity and an outrage towards every felicitous refinement that has gone into making a garden.
-- Mirabel Osler -
Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.
-- Roelof Botha -
Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired.
-- Walter Walker -
You're not challenging anyone else but yourself. I'd like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.
-- Aaron Tippin -
Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.
-- Bruce Hoffman -
I'm hoping for a bench clearing brawl during the warm up so I can go out and grab his stick.
-- Ron Tugnutt -
Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.
-- Janet Macunovich -
As a goalkeeper, you can't come off the bench for 10 minutes and prove your worth - it's either you're in or you're out.
-- Joe Hart -
As a bench coach in Anaheim I used to sit down below with Sosh (Scioscia) on that little area, and then when you'd get up on top, it was an entirely different vibe, man. Two, three steps up, it's a different vibe. You feel everything.
-- Joe Maddon
