Ben Lerner Quotes

I imagined the passengers could see me, imagined I was a passenger that could see me looking up at myself looking down.

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• Back when I was a kid, I never liked the kind of kids that my kids have become. They're privileged and have things very easy. But I'm proud of them. None of my kids are getting high, they love school, they're very popular.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • School
  • Proud
  • Popular

• Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result.

  

  Tommy Armour
  • Golf
  • Result
  • Produce

• I was sitting in Arizona when I received Dogs on Cape Cod. Seeing the joy these dogs had playing on the beaches and in the marsh grasses on the Cape carried me back to my family visits in Harwich. The dogs are so full of life, it just made me smile.

  

  Betsy King
  • Joy
  • Smile
  • Dogs

• That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

  

  William Thomas Green Morton
  • History
  • Ethics
  • Outcome

• Funny stuff? Bringing back “Pain for Pleasure” every night on our nine week tour was the funniest, most hysterical thing ever, and being a part of that and making the behind-the-scenes videos about it was just super fun.

  

  Frank Zummo Sum 41
  • Making
  • Tour
  • Videos

• the one thing I've observed over the years is the best way to get an actor to not want to play a certain role is to offer it to them. That makes them say, "Well, maybe it's not that good. These guys don't want me to do this..."

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Play
  • Actors
  • Certain

• I knew you could find a certain relief in begging God, it had helped me, but on the other hand, God never answered directly and that was always depressing.

  

  Darcey Steinke
  • Hands
  • Relief
  • Depressing

• No one ever sounded like The Slits or looked like them, no matter how many people tried it, or were influenced by it. It's impossible. You can't recreate that. There will never be another Sex Pistols. There will never be another Clash.

  

  Ari Up
  • People
  • Matter
  • Impossible

• I'm very clear about what I want to say. I have a great team and it's going well. I have a feeling of maturity.

  

  Christophe Lemaitre
  • Feeling
  • Team
  • Have

• Boko Haram represents the ultimate Fatwa of our time. The question is does the sect's Fatwa represent the articulated position of the majority of Muslims in this nation? My reading over the last few years is an unambiguous no. We are undergoing an affliction that many could not have imagined about a decade ago. Let us confront the ultimate horror now. To remain inactive at this moment is to betray our children and to consolidate the ongoing crimes against our humanity. We must take the battle to the enemy...We sent our children to school; we must bring them back to school.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Children
  • School
  • Reading

• The sins of others can never become the measure of your own.

  

  Adrienne von Speyr
  • Sin
  • Become
  • Measure

• If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that the pastor should stop wearing his glasses, it would be useless. That would be making a game of it.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Value
  • Star
  • Search

• The stupidest word Jason could have imagined. Utter nonsense. Supposedly it would unmake Maldor. He repeated the odd syllables in his mind, varying the inflection. If it failed, he could always try "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious".

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Mind
  • Word
  • Imagined

• I imagined the passengers could see me, imagined I was a passenger that could see me looking up at myself looking down.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Imagined
  • Passengers
  • Looking Up