Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

The evening was still warm enough for shirtsleeves, and the city was clinging to summer like a wannabe trophy wife to a promising center forward.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • World
  • Children
  • Family

• My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Death
  • Singing
  • Creative

• The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Perfect

• I don't know how people recognize me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• Politics is not an exact science.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Science
  • Politics
  • Exact

• As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Live
  • Child
  • Loved

• I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • May
  • Star
  • Moon

• When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Movie
  • Song
  • Basketball

• 6,000 people were killed, crippled, and wounded during the War of Independence. The economy was devastated - there was no milk, just milk powder. No eggs, but egg powder. Meat was only once a week.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • People
  • War
  • Independence

• If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Talk

• Every day of my life, I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Day

• The Forgetful Vegan: Man that sure was some good pepperoni pi-Oh Fuck!

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Good
  • Vegan

• If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• My commitment is that Crown Sydney won't be just another hotel: it will be a landmark building for Sydney with a design and quality that the city deserves.

  

  James Packer
  • City
  • Quality
  • Design

• It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science.

  

  Prince Charles
  • World
  • Science
  • Technology

• Bryan Adams might not be what I want to put on, but he's a pop singer with a great voice and great guitar tone. Plus, he's done more for Canada than Rush have, because he works all the time. I envy him for that.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-fitted shadow, and you shall receive a hearty welcome; otherwise, on the fourth day - remember, on the fourth day - my daughter becomes the wife of another.

  

  Adelbert von Chamisso
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Wife

• I supported Bob Schaffer's three races for Congress. But we all had concerns about whether he could win statewide. Then my wife suggested that I get it.

  

  Pete Coors
  • Wife

• Just being a singer in Nashville is hard because everyone does music here, and so many people do it really well. But then, the fact that I do this alternative kind of pop music, dreampop... It's like I'm the lone unicorn roaming around this town.

  

  Chelsea Lankes
  • People
  • Music
  • Unicorn

• After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Money
  • Business
  • Brain Damaged

• The evening was still warm enough for shirtsleeves, and the city was clinging to summer like a wannabe trophy wife to a promising center forward.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • City
  • Wife
  • Promising