Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

MIU was still stuffed into their overheated office space. Luckily somebody had sprung for an industrial-sized cooling fan with a face the same diameter as a dustbin lid and an unfortunate tendency to blow any unsecured paperwork out the nearest window. If we’d had a green screen we could have shot the live elements to a low budget disaster movie.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.

  

  Warren Farrell

• It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.

  

  Deborah Norville
  • Important
  • Women

• In addition to billions in new 'stimulus' spending that our country can't afford, the Geithner plan also contains billions in tax increases on small and family-owned businesses while protecting the tax preferences of wealthy, multinational corporations.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Country
  • Family
  • Small

• That Bears quarterback is no good. He's washed up. He's 30.

  

  Donny Most
  • Up
  • Good

• Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

  

  DeMar DeRozan
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around … I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Style
  • Player

• Nowhere in the world can the Jew savor the taste of Homeland save in the Land of Israel.

  

  Aaron David Gordon
  • World

• It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Advantage

• Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Fiction
  • Manage
  • Bullets

• To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

  

  William Hague
  • Children
  • Teacher
  • Teaching

• May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Light
  • Dark Place

• No more misquoted forms, lost invoices, redundant entries, missing checks, or delays caused by incomplete paperwork.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Checks
  • Forms
  • Paperwork

• I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.

  

  Alfred Nobel
  • Science
  • Taste
  • Modesty

• Starlight is falling on every square mile of the earth's surface, and the best we can do at present is to gather up and concentrate the rays that strike at area 100 inches in diameter.

  

  George Ellery Hale
  • Earth
  • Astronomy
  • Squares

• I'm my biggest critic. I want there to be no flaws when you hear it. When I think that maybe it's ready, I just hop in my car it's gotta have some bump - and go to corner stores, youngsters on the block, play it for anyone. If they get into it, I get a reaction, the song passes the hyphy test. If it's just cool, we throw it away; it's not going on the record. But if it makes you wanna move - seriously - if it makes you react the same way I felt, then it passes.

  

  Keak da Sneak
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Critics

• Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

  

  Tom Conti
  • Habit
  • Worst
  • Procrastination

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, 'Mad Men' offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy - and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Life
  • Men
  • Home

• Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

  

  Steve Jurvetson
  • Growth
  • Source

• Into whatsoever houses I enter, I will enter to help the sick, and I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever I shall see or hear in the course of my profession, as well as outside my profession in my intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, I will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Bodies
  • Harm
  • Houses

• Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence

  

  William P. Young
  • Father
  • Creation
  • Absence

• Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

  

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • God
  • Hands
  • Mirrors

• Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

  

  Simon Van Booy
  • Mean
  • Years
  • Inside

• MIU was still stuffed into their overheated office space. Luckily somebody had sprung for an industrial-sized cooling fan with a face the same diameter as a dustbin lid and an unfortunate tendency to blow any unsecured paperwork out the nearest window. If we’d had a green screen we could have shot the live elements to a low budget disaster movie.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Paperwork
  • Diameter
  • Disaster Movie