Gregory Benford Quotes

I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go get lunch every day off campus. I used to feel so slighted.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

It's definitely hard when you're putting in the work and the guy who's starting isn't, especially if he's overhyped or you're not winning. I can't imagine how hard it would be to be that guy's backup.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

The current public aspiration seems to be: Get what you can. Can what you get. Sit on the can behind gated fences.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

Let me be clear: I am sick of having to criticise the club which I gave my life to as a footballer.

Luxury takes many forms nowadays, but one thing doesn't change: luxury is about desire and the ability to create dreams.

Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want

She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.

You have the American dream! The dream is to be born in a gutter and grow up, and then get all the money in the world and stick it in your ears and go THBBBBBT.

The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.

The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that.

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?