Walter Walker
Artist
"Britain has invented a new missile. It's called the civil servant - it doesn't work and it can't be fired."
Benches quotes
Benches
88 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you"
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"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."
Conrad Black
Businessman, Author
"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."
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder."
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"Bench me or trade me."
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"I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism."
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"I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath."
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"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."
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"History as the slaughter-bench"
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"This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Please get off my bench! Oh, god! Oh, god! Don't touch me—oh, god!"
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"He lit a cigarette and handed it to me. I inhaled. Coughed. Wheezed. Gasped for breath. Coughed again. Considered vomiting. Grabbed the swinging bench, head spinning, and threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped on it, convinced my Great Perhaps did not involve cigarettes."
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