Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
You never said you used to play Dungeon and Dragons. I’d been tempted to tell her that I was thirteen at the time, and anyway it was Call of Cthulhu, but I’ve learned from bitter experience that such remarks generally only make things worse.
Quotes to Explore
-
Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
-
That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
-
I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
-
If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
-
The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
-
I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
-
I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
-
One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
-
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
-
Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
-
I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
-
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
-
There is a standard joke in the family. Probably we should go into selling second-hand shoes.
-
The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.
-
The anti-New Deal line is wrong as a matter of economics. F.D.R.'s spending programs did help the economy and created millions of new jobs.
-
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
-
'Let them scoff as they see fit! I will never compromise what I consider my art, especially for the sake of gain!''For the sake of gain I’d compromise the art of my grandmother,' muttered Zamp under his breath.
-
I do not own an inch of land, But all I see is mine, - The orchard and the mowing fields, The lawns and gardens fine.
-
The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.
-
The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.
-
I feel like I've got all this knowledge and experience under my belt from the past but at the same time, it's like starting up and I'm brand new to it. I'm really digging it.
-
Someone had to lend me a hand or two to pull me forward. I feel it's my duty to make sure I do the same.
-
The only name on my birth certificate was Henley, no first name.
-
You never said you used to play Dungeon and Dragons. I’d been tempted to tell her that I was thirteen at the time, and anyway it was Call of Cthulhu, but I’ve learned from bitter experience that such remarks generally only make things worse.
