Ben Lee Quotes

In the silence, hear what can't be heard.

Ben Lee

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• We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Death
  • Wife

• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Wonderful

• I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Time
  • Politics
  • Stand

• I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Important
  • Legacy

• Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • You
  • Somebody
  • Introduce

• Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working with language coaches in Los Angeles to get rid of the accent completely.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • God
  • Language
  • Rude

• I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Money
  • Food

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• I have really fond memories of growing up in Chicago, and I always love going back. I still have a lot of really good friends from high school that I go to dinner with. It's kind of become a tradition when I go out there to do a show to give a few friends a call, tell some funny stories about high school and walk down memory lane.

  

  Kaskade
  • Friends
  • Funny
  • Memories

• People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Up
  • Focus

• I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Person
  • Values
  • Ideological

• Me.

  

  Hank Aaron

• You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good

• Lying on my hotel bed, mesmerized by the lazy turns of the ceiling fan, I pondered the possibility that I was nuts. It wasn’t unheard of, even in the days of the Bitchun Society, and even though there were cures, they weren’t pleasant.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • Society
  • Lazy

• I have a lot of artists who I just love to hear their music, and I'm a fan of them.

  

  Maluma
  • Music
  • Love
  • Artists

• In these days of our new materialistic Irish state, poetry will have a harder, less picturesque task. But the loss of Yeats and all that boundless activity, in a country where the mind is feared and avoided, leaves a silence which it is painful to contemplate.

  

  Austin Clarke
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Poetry

• I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Free
  • Air
  • England

• What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • People
  • House
  • Political

• In the silence, hear what can't be heard.

  

  Ben Lee
  • Silence
  • Hear