Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

I was pleased to see that even back in the glory days of the Folly people left their mugs of tea on their magical textbooks.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Me
  • Best
  • Tea

• I don't look at emails, Internet or newspapers before 1 P.M. I wake at 7 A.M., eat fruit, drink tea or coffee, and read what I've achieved, or not achieved, the previous day. Then I take a shower and work on my next sentence until 1 P.M. After I've done emails and so on, I write again from 3 P.M. until 8 P.M.; then I socialise.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Done
  • Day

• The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Tea
  • Auto
  • Employment

• Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • God
  • Glory
  • Willingness

• Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Party
  • Humble
  • Tea

• Certain kinds of people will always have an issue with my music. But that's fine; it's OK. I don't want to be the McDonald's of music. I don't want to not turn anyone off. If you were everybody's cup of tea, you'd probably be boring.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Tea

• British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Desire
  • Passion
  • Chinese

• Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Money
  • Nothing
  • Glory

• In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Art
  • Tea
  • Flowers

• If Christianity is wine and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most certainly tea.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Wine
  • Coffee
  • Tea

• The Chinese say it is better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Food
  • Chinese
  • Tea

• I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • City
  • Tea
  • Lake

• It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are, in many ways, saying the same thing, but it requires a bit of imagination to get people to see that.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Party
  • Imagination

• I inhaled Dickens as a kid, and I've always been fascinated by the Victorians. So many ridiculous objects they had! They created things like mustache cups, so you wouldn't wet your mustache when you were drinking tea. And eyebrow combs. What's happened to all the eyebrow combs? Marvelous things.

  

  Edward Carey
  • Drinking
  • Tea

• The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Nice
  • Tea

• I have an amazing 1930s dress I picked up in Toronto at Cabaret on Queen West. It's a red knee-length tea dress, and it's absolutely beautiful. It makes me happy every time I put it on.

  

  Lindy Booth
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• I went into the world confident my tea training would open many doors. And I did particularly well with the Irish and fellow Nova Scotians over 60. But this only got me so far. It took a long time to cultivate the tricks of easy social interaction.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Time
  • World
  • Long

• When someone comes to visit me, they have to bring tea - you can't stay in my house if you don't bring me tea.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • House
  • Tea

• Washington's is the mightiest name of earth - long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Glory
  • Washington
  • Reformation

• Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Enemy
  • Glory
  • Fantasy

• I am quite private about my personal life, and I don't talk much about it.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Life

• I have always maintained the importance of Aunts...

  

  Jane Austen
  • Importance
  • Maintained
  • Aunts

• I was pleased to see that even back in the glory days of the Folly people left their mugs of tea on their magical textbooks.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Tea
  • Glory
  • Textbooks