Jim Benton Quotes

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School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.
Jim Benton
Kissing the frog to get the prince is a waste of a perfectly good frog.
Jim Benton
This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.
Jim Benton (Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers (Dear Dumb Diary #11))
How Superheroes Make Money: - Spider-Man knits sweaters. - Superman screw the lids on pickle jars. - Iron Man, as you would suspect, just irons.
Jim Benton (Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers (Dear Dumb Diary #11))
never underestimate your dumbness!!
Jim Benton (Never Underestimate Your Dumbness (Dear Dumb Diary, #7))
I'm telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a scary tattoo holding a chain saw. There's just no way to really prepare for that.
Jim Benton (Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers (Dear Dumb Diary #11))
He giggled like a puppy being tickled by a kitten wearing a duckling costume.
Jim Benton (Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers (Dear Dumb Diary #11))
I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned that this is exactly like somebody trying to gently color on you with a thirty-story building. Without dwelling on the tragedy, I'd just like to say that I'm deeply sorry to Mr. Purple and the surviving Purple family.
Jim Benton (Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers (Dear Dumb Diary #11))
Things Isabella Wouldn't Care About: - Titanic sinking again. - Metror striking Earth and landing directly on top of world's most innocent panda. - Titanic sinking again and this time the entire crew is puppies.
Jim Benton (Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers (Dear Dumb Diary #11))
Love makes the world go 'round but I'm pretty sure money has to do with it, too.
Jim Benton
The Destructive Arts are exactly like Martial Arts, except they don't have uniforms or usefulness and the end result doesn't resemble art in any way.
Jim Benton (Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers (Dear Dumb Diary #11))
Homework strongly indicates that the teachers are not doing their jobs well enough during the school day. It's not like they'll let you bring your home stuff to school and work on it there. You can't say, 'I didn't finish sleeping at home, so I have to work on finishing my sleep here.
Jim Benton (Nobody's Perfect. I'm as Close as It Gets (Dear Dumb Diary Year Two #3))
Mrs. Palmer is a teacher so naturally I assumed she would never do anything good for me.
Jim Benton
The following ten throws went a variety of places. I never hit the target, but I was getting closer. Isabella was laughing so hard she wrote "Please stop can't breathe" in the dirt with her finger.
Jim Benton (Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers (Dear Dumb Diary #11))
Your life is like a pizza. It could be round, it could be square. But you'll enjoy it most of all When it's something that you share.
Jim Benton
My pants cut the cheese. Let one fly. Baked a batch of brownies.
Jim Benton (My Pants Are Haunted)
Buy me stuff and I'll be nicer
Jim Benton
School prepares you for the real world but I want the fake world. TEEHEE
Jim Benton
I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.
Jim Benton (Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers (Dear Dumb Diary #11))
For the love of all humanity, shake what your mama gave you!
Jim Benton (Frantastic Voyage (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist, #5))
Ant 1: So, uh, do you ever worry that your itsy little neck is just going to snap under the weight of your head? Ant 2: Stop asking me that. You ask me that, like, every five minutes. Ant 1: Sometimes I notice my antennae out of the corner of my eye and I'm all, like: AHH! Something is on me! Get it off! Get it off! Ant 2: Yeah, the antennae again. Listen, I just remembered, I have to go walk around aimlessly now.
Jim Benton (Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers (Dear Dumb Diary #11))
There are four categories of questions Emmily asks: 1. Can I please go to the bathroom? 2. Where is the bathroom? 3. Is it okay if I raise my hand and ask a question? 4. I don't understand anything you've said in the last thirty minutes. Could you explain it again? Also the last six weeks.
Jim Benton (Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers (Dear Dumb Diary #11))
Life is like a pizza. It is good to eat. You better share your pizza with me. You greedy Piggy slob.
Jim Benton
Okay, Dumb Diary, school has taught me a few things over the years. Once, it taught me the difference between alligators and crocodiles. (Even alligators and crocodiles don't really care. Just avoid both.)
Jim Benton
Chess is a very interesting game, and like so many interesting games, it is not in any way fun. It looks like four horses lost amongst a variety of pepper mills and salt shakers, and the objective is to remain awake longer than your opponent.
Jim Benton
Talking of appearances, I would like my future readers to know that the picture of Jim and me that Thomas Hart Benton painted on the wall of the Missouri state capitol bears not the slightest resemblance to either one of us. ... I've never been satisfied with any representation of myself and have seen only one picture of Jim that did him justice. I don't know why this should be, unless it is evidence of a nearly universal prejudice against us, instigated by Sunday school superintendents, Republicans, and bigots.
Norman Lock (The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel (The American Novels))
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Jim Benton (Let's Pretend This Never Happened (Dear Dumb Diary #1))
Primo giorno di navigazione 1 gennaio 1900, al largo della Costa Orientale degli Stati Uniti «Mr Benton, l’accompagno al suo posto al tavolo del comandante.» Con un piccolo cenno di ringraziamento, Ken seguì lo steward nella sfarzosa sala da pranzo dell’Oceanic II, tutta marmi, specchi e lampadari di cristallo, sino al tavolo centrale imbandito con una tale quantità di bicchieri e posate da mettere probabilmente in soggezione più di un commensale. Durante la traversata avrebbe diviso i pasti con il comandante, Mr Cameron, il suo vice, il medico di bordo e una ventina di passeggeri di prima classe, considerati, per varie ragioni a lui poco comprensibili, importanti.Ne aveva ricevuto l’elenco completo solo pochi minuti prima dal valletto che era andato a prelevarlo nel suo alloggio, per scortarlo, come un secondino, sino alla sala da pranzo: un trattamento di riguardo per i viaggiatori importantiche occupavano le suite del ponte principale del transatlantico. In realtà, Ken aveva sperato di poter trascorrere i cinque giorni della traversata da solo, a elaborare la delusione e a piangere sulla sua vita che non sarebbe trascorsa al fianco della donna che ancora amava disperatamente. E invece… era stato catapultato in un mondo dove gli obblighi sociali sembravano essere ancora più assillanti che sulla Quinta Avenue. Forse, a pensarci meglio, da domani avrebbe deciso di consumare tutti i pasti chiuso nella sua cabina, servito da Jim, il suo valletto. Forse ci sarebbe rimasto per tutti e cinque i giorni, chiuso nella sua cabina. Con l’umore nero che si ritrovava, che a dire il vero rasentava la disperazione, non aveva alcuna voglia di sorridere e scambiare chiacchiere inutili con un gruppo di spocchiosi aristocratici britannici e di suoi connazionali milionari, tutta gente che frequentava l’alta società della East Coast e Wall Street; come lui stesso, del resto. Sperò almeno di sedere vicino a uno degli ufficiali di bordo, in modo da poter intrattenere una conversazione che andasse al di là degli ultimi pettegolezzi. Compreso quello che probabilmente si era già diffuso in tutta New York e che riguardava la patetica rottura del suo fidanzamento con Camille Brontee. Dannazione! Se qualcuno gli avesse chiesto qualcosa a proposito, o vi avesse solo accennato, la tentazione di rifilargli un bel cazzotto sul naso sarebbe stata enorme. Si guardò la mano destra, ancora dolorante a causa del pugno che solo il giorno prima aveva tirato in faccia a Frank Raleigh, l’uomo per cui Camille lo aveva lasciato.
Viviana Giorgi (Un amore di inizio secolo: La traversata)
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Jim Benton (The Frandidate (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist Book 7))
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Jim Benton (The Frandidate (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist Book 7))
Some people don't seem to be so dead, when they are dead, as others are. Jim Benton was like that.
F. Marion Crawford (The Complete Horror Books of F. Marion Crawford: The Witch of Prague, The Upper Berth, Khaled: A Tale of Arabia, For the Blood Is the Life, The Screaming Skull, The Doll's Ghost, Man Overboard!)
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Jim Benton (The Invisible Fran (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist Book 3))
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Jim Benton (The Frandidate (Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist Book 7))
Princess Turd of Turdsylvania" - p.17
Jim Benton
In the back of my closet, I saw a pink wrap dress that was hopelessly Southern. Pale pink, with little flutter sleeves all in a Swiss-dot fabric that you could see through if you held it up to the light. I would need nude undergarments, which I was sure I had. My mom always told me never to wear wild undies, you never knew who'd see them! What if I got in a car wreck? I pulled my hair up and allowed a few red curls to fall out of a messy bun at the nape of my neck. I slipped the dress on and gave my lips a quick swipe of gloss. I chose small gold hoop earrings that had belonged to Gran at one time and stepped into a pair of gold flip-flops. I looked at myself in the mirror and reminded myself I was going to a farm. Jim walked in. "Ready for the big... Oh, my God, Magnolia!" "What? Too much?" I said, grimacing. "Good God, no! You look absolutely perfect! You look like a mouthwatering pink confection! A true Southern Magnolia!
Victoria Benton Frank (My Magnolia Summer)
Ken fece un respiro di sollievo ricordandosi all’improvviso dei libri che aveva richiesto. Mai come in quel momento si era sentito tanto attratto dalla pace di una lettura solitaria. Jim aprì la porta e lui, rincuorato da quel pensiero, nel medesimo istante saltò fuori dal suo nascondiglio come un fauno dal bosco. La donna, che se lo vide apparire davanti all’improvviso, ancora tutto scompigliato e rosso in viso a causa dell’esercizio fisico, dovette spaventarsi, perché prima lanciò un urletto sorpreso – e molto aggraziato, per la verità – poi i libri, che finirono in aria e quindi sul pavimento. Anche Ken sussultò a quella reazione esagerata, lasciando al solo Jim l’onore di mantenere i nervi saldi. Col cuore che gli batteva troppo forte nel petto, fissò la donna sbigottito. Chi diavolo aveva mandato quel Jenkins a consegnargli i libri? Una pazza? La giovane donna, mormorando delle scuse imbarazzate, si era nel frattempo inginocchiata a terra ed era impegnatissima a raccogliere i volumi caduti, la gonna blu aperta intorno a lei come una corolla. Ken non poteva vederle il viso, ma il collo sottile di lei e i suoi capelli neri come la notte, per quanto raccolti in uno severo chignon, lo indussero a domandarsi se il volto fosse altrettanto perfetto. E, senza esitare, fece qualcosa che il vecchio Ken non avrebbe mai osato fare: si chinò, afferrò la donna per le braccia, la sollevò e, senza delicatezza e con molta curiosità, scrutò negli occhi di lei. Occhi così blu che mai prima in vita sua ne aveva visto di uguali.
Viviana Giorgi (Un amore di inizio secolo: La traversata)