Ben Galley Quotes

I supposed when you had immortality to waste, spending it on books wasn’t such a bad idea. I saw the sense in it. Books – at least the good sort – were doors into worlds beyond our miserable own.

Ben Galley

• Books
• Immortality
• Bad Idea

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• I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Myself
  • Find

• I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Proud
  • Youth
  • Walk

• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Black

• So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Politics
  • Interested
  • Did

• I have a certain manner of speech that is unique to me. I tried once to have my staff tweet for me, and it was a disaster! People knew right away that it wasn't me.

  

  Iman
  • People
  • Me
  • Unique

• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

  Jack Germond
  • God
  • Religion
  • Belief

• I came from drama school, and it's a group of 18 people working together in every single production and splitting up the roles for three years, so I am very much about the team.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• Everybody, no matter what vocation they're looking at, should add music as an essential to their curriculum. Music can be a very important part of your soul and your growth as a human being. It's so powerful.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Important
  • Soul

• I have an incredibly high metabolism.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • High
  • Incredibly
  • Metabolism

• I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Bad Boy

• You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Why
  • She
  • Fashion

• If you're a Republican woman, you're mostly on your own when it comes to support from traditional women's groups.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Support
  • Woman

• Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Good
  • Prove
  • Illness

• I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Known

• I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • True
  • Perfect
  • Dreams

• For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • Mind
  • Soul

• I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

  

  Morris Chestnut
  • Reading
  • Books
  • Scripts

• Read the books which they the ancients have written, read those which you prefer, they will speak to you and you will speak to them.

  

  Bernardino of Siena
  • Speak
  • Books
  • Prefer

• Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.

  

  David McCord
  • Fall
  • Books
  • Delighted

• I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Travel

• Actually I am having so much fun, it has been the most fun time now that it has been announced and I don't have to, you know, it was really difficult to conceal, but now that I can be proud and excited about it I'm having so much fun shopping - it's great.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Time
  • Great
  • Fun

• I supposed when you had immortality to waste, spending it on books wasn’t such a bad idea. I saw the sense in it. Books – at least the good sort – were doors into worlds beyond our miserable own.

  

  Ben Galley
  • Books
  • Immortality
  • Bad Idea