Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

Kumar and I ended up stuffing tissue paper up our nostrils, but agreed that if we had to come down again more drastic action would be justified - like amputation.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Party
  • King

• I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Want

• My mom is a sculptress.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Mom

• After almost 30 years of playing this sport, I've learned something. I've learned that, no matter what happens, or happened... or where you are, or where you've been... at the end of the day: tennis is tennis. It's always, always tennis. And there's nothing better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Day
  • Better
  • End

• What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Believe
  • Moral
  • Christianity

• We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Someone

• What goes up can continue.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up

• In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• Ambedkar is my Father in Economics. He is true celebrated champion of the underprivileged. He deserves more than what he has achieved today. However he was highly controversial figure in his home country,though it was not the reality. His contribution in the field of economics is marvelous and will be remembered forever..!

  

  Amartya Sen
  • Country
  • Home
  • True

• Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Universe

• I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Nature

• I also have a different, softer side, and I want for people to hear that.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • People
  • Different

• Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • True
  • Hate

• For some reason, I'm constantly attacked on social media in terms of how I dress. I've never understood that. That's been very hard.

  

  Alessia Cara

• I have a very warm feeling about Kickstarter 'cause I think it's the best of what we can be. It's people who actually help out our fellow artists. We actually kind of go into our pocket for something. It's very rare.

  

  Joe Carnahan
  • People
  • Help
  • Feeling

• One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • World
  • Truth

• You know that band that are all over 'Melody Maker,' Huggy Bear, they're just a load of crap, right? Riot grrrl group - y'know, it's all sexism and stuff, women standing up for their rights: 'This girl said this at the gig off the stage.' It's nothing got to do with music. They're probably untalented gits when it comes to the crunch.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Up
  • Music
  • Women

• Always my collections are made of different influences.

  

  Jean Paul Gaultier
  • Different

• I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Art

• Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.

  

  Brandon Lee
  • Action
  • Journey
  • Hero

• Just at the turn of the tide, nature held its breath - no bird sang, everything seemed to be waiting and waiting. And then, sure enough, as if someone had flicked a switch, everything started in motion again.

  

  Marion Chesney
  • Nature
  • Waiting
  • Bird

• Kumar and I ended up stuffing tissue paper up our nostrils, but agreed that if we had to come down again more drastic action would be justified - like amputation.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Action
  • Paper
  • Amputations