Ben Lerner Quotes
Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.
Quotes to Explore
-
I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
-
I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
-
It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.
-
A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
-
I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
-
There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.
-
I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
-
I hate being too pretty.
-
The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
-
People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
-
My mom is a sculptress.
-
But the Queen has no such veto; She must sign her own death-warrant if the two Houses unanimously send it up to her.
-
Fez gave her a squeeze. 'You’re a genius, Sam-I-Am.' She squirmed away from him uncomfortably. 'It just makes sense, is all.''Sometimes that’s all it takes to be a genius.'
-
We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.
-
The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
-
Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
-
I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.
-
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
-
The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.
-
I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.
-
Cuanto he perdido lo hallo a cada paso y me recuerda que lo he perdido.
-
In the lost battle,Borne down by the flying,Where mingles war's rattleWith groans of the dying.
-
A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.
-
Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.
