Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

Tolkien and my dad had weirdly convergent ideas about the musical nature of the universe, although my dad would probably have been more forgiving of Melkor’s improvisation. You know, providing it didn’t step on his solo.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Man
  • Religious
  • Poetry

• Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Cool
  • Face
  • Bus

• My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.

  

  Halsey
  • Mom
  • Issue
  • Ever

• One should eat everything especially healthy and not junk food. I don't like the idea of starving. I would eat and burn it out in gym. The amount of intake is what matters.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Gym

• The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • Know

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Outside
  • Washington

• When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Good
  • Like
  • Stage

• My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Mom

• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Real
  • Job

• ‘Do you know,’ said a thoughtful Bean, ‘I’ll bet that if all the girls Freddie Widgeon has loved were placed end to end-not that I suppose one could do it-they would reach half-way down Piccadilly.’‘Further than that,’ said the Egg. ‘Some of them were pretty tall.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Pretty
  • Thoughtful

• This will end in tears.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Tears

• A writer is in the end not his books, but his myth. And that myth is in the keeping of others.

  

  V. S. Naipaul

• To you, is it movement, or is it action?Is it contact or just reaction?And you, revolution, just resistance?Is it living, or just existence? - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Enemy

• Adventures suck when you're having them. - Roadshow ()

  

  Neil Peart Rush

• Les gens qui n'eurent point de faiblesses sont terribles; on n'a point de prise sur eux.

  

  Anatole France

• The question may seem embarrassing, but it can be answered in a few words. For two people to live in peace they must both want peace; if one of them insists on using force to oblige the other to work for him and serve him, then the other, if he wishes to retain his dignity as a man and not be reduced to abject slavery, will be obliged in spite of his love of peace, to resist force with adequate means.

  

  Errico Malatesta
  • Work
  • Words
  • Peace

• Universe is the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Universe
  • Humanity
  • Overlapping

• And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • World
  • Women
  • Remember

• Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is broadening our opportunity, as well as for other big media companies with huge resources in sports, entertainment and news. There's just more opportunity.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Sports

• Tolkien and my dad had weirdly convergent ideas about the musical nature of the universe, although my dad would probably have been more forgiving of Melkor’s improvisation. You know, providing it didn’t step on his solo.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Universe
  • Solo
  • Tolkien