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

• One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never sits watching a debate in person - is because the vast majority of American voters watch these political events on television.

  

  Ed Rollins
  • Up
  • American
  • Political

• 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

• Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Friend
  • Look
  • Dating

• 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

• A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Real
  • Funny

• I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Work
  • Quality
  • More

• England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • You
  • Find
  • Irony

• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Democracy
  • Idea
  • Slave

• 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

• CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • People
  • Peace
  • Opinion

• 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

• Quality Healthcare is a premier healthcare brand in Hong Kong and is the leading private healthcare provider there. We are believers in long-term growth prospects of the Asian healthcare space and the benefits of a world-class pan-Asian integrated healthcare delivery system.

  

  Malvinder Mohan Singh
  • World
  • Long
  • Space

• Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • True
  • Happy

• City farming is not only possible, it is the very definition of the kind of meaningful, sustainable innovation we will need to meet the grand challenges of the 21st century: climate change; population growth; ageing population; urbanization; rising demand for energy, food and water; poverty; and access to healthcare.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Energy
  • Food
  • City

• The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Long
  • American
  • Black

• Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Popular
  • Right
  • Wage

• 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