Ben Lerner Quotes

I will begin to remember our walk in the third person, as if I’d seen it from the Manhattan Bridge, but, at the time of writing, as I lean against the chain-link fence intended to stop jumpers, I am looking back at the totaled city in the second person plural. I know it’s hard to understand / I am with you, and I know how it is.

Ben Lerner

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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Information

• Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Like
  • Gone
  • Favor

• I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • School
  • High
  • Movies

• My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Success
  • Best
  • Consequences

• California is an easy place to be an Asian woman engineer.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Woman
  • Easy
  • California

• Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Community
  • Greed

• In 1973, America imported 30 percent of its crude oil needs. Today, that number has doubled to more than 60 percent. Gas prices are as high as they are now in part because we've had no comprehensive national energy policy for the past few decades.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • America
  • High
  • Today

• What I am really curious about is the visuals of cinema... the form.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Cinema
  • Curious

• I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Right
  • Wrong

• Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • American
  • Dream
  • Moving

• If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• Ah! County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Guy
  • Sun

• My father had a dark glimmer in his eye as he moved behind her. 'Old?' He spoke in a low voice as he began to rub her shoulders again. 'Woman, I have a mind to prove you wrong.'She smiled a wry smile. 'Sir, I have a mind to let you.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Mind
  • She
  • Father

• Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,She sparkled, was exhal'd and went to heaven.

  

  Edward Young
  • She
  • Morning
  • Heaven

• To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Happy

• I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Famous

• Personally I feel for the fans because I remember the period of time when Michael Schumacher was winning. I remember waking up in the morning to watch the start of the race and then going to sleep, and then waking up when it ended because I already knew what would happen. I am pretty sure a lot of people were doing that today.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Live
  • Faith

• A king without power is an absurdity.

  

  James Monroe
  • Power
  • King

• When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.

  

  Peter S. Beagle
  • Hero

• I will begin to remember our walk in the third person, as if I’d seen it from the Manhattan Bridge, but, at the time of writing, as I lean against the chain-link fence intended to stop jumpers, I am looking back at the totaled city in the second person plural. I know it’s hard to understand / I am with you, and I know how it is.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Remember
  • City
  • Jumpers