Ben Eine Quotes
A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.
Quotes to Explore
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
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I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
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I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.
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Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.
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I thought it would be a lot tougher. Once they showed us the right way to do it, it wasn't too hard. I still need some practice though.
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I was given the task of I.P.L. Chairmanship which I tried to perform to the best of my abilities. The tournament was organised well despite all the controversies. The stadiums were jam-packed, which proved that I.P.L. was still popular.
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A lot of my paintings have quite negative meanings, but painted in a bright and cheerful way.
