Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

I don’t mind getting drunk, but there always comes a moment in the evening when I find myself watching myself bumping into things and thinking—I’m bored of this, can I have full control of my brain back, please?

Ben Aaronovitch

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• I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Up
  • Game
  • Struggle

• There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • True
  • Society
  • Strong

• Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

  

  Dane Cook
  • Just
  • Hot
  • Notes

• If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • People
  • God
  • Remember

• Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Simple
  • Ideas
  • Commerce

• There are certain songs that just stick around and do something that transcends whatever time they were written in. Through different eras, people are able to impart different meaning to the song, and they become part of some sort of consciousness.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Music
  • Family
  • Night

• I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Time
  • London
  • Sailing

• Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happy

• Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Life
  • Live
  • Law

• I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Up
  • Love
  • Just

• The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Faith

• The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'

  

  Randall Park
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• Unfortunately, violent events and hate-filled rhetoric around the world provide ample opportunity for promoting religious hostility.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Hate

• I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Space
  • Exploration

• If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • You
  • Like
  • Talk

• Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Great
  • Nature

• The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

  

  Bob McDonnell

• The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

  

  John Tillotson
  • Thinking
  • Dark
  • Persons

• I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

  

  Raina Telgemeier
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Art

• If you can't find dry shampoo, baby powder is great.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Great
  • Baby
  • Find

• I don’t mind getting drunk, but there always comes a moment in the evening when I find myself watching myself bumping into things and thinking—I’m bored of this, can I have full control of my brain back, please?

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Control
  • Brain
  • Find