A Quote by Alan Bennett

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

Alan Bennett

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Alan Bennett
English - Dramatist
Born: May 9, 1934

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.

Alan Bennett

It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.

D. H. Lawrence

I eat a tin of sardines every day.

Bob Mortimer

Maybe some people will not agree, but I like to eat sardines in the morning for breakfast. I think some people will have a hard time eating sardines in olive oil or pickled sardines for breakfast. I guess that is why I am still single.

David H. Murdock

This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.

Anne Frank

Gradually, we fell in love with camper-vanning. It's a strange business to begin with - rather like driving a large, rather flimsy cardboard box. It's ugly, the suspension's appalling, you rattle around like pebbles in a tin, and you can't hear yourself speak above the engine.

Mary Nightingale

Looking at robots is not like looking at an idol. It's not a human being, so it's more like a mirror - the energy people send to the stage bounces back and everybody has a good time together rather than focusing on us.

Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo

The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.

Jeanette Winterson

Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think it's supposed to be.

Jeff Kober

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

Madeleine L'Engle

On a boat cruising down east, sardines are scooped out of the holding seine at Eastport at dawn. 'Sardines' may be any of several species of fish; in Maine they are usually small herring. Fish are penned in nets until the boats are ready to load. The fish are taken a short distance to canneries which work round the clock, according to the time of the catch.

Luis Marden

In 1923 I was the No. 1 box office star. A year later it was Rin Tin Tin.

Jackie Coogan

I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

Al Gore

The sardines had their heads on and they were like watching you.

Sarah

We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.