Ben Mikaelsen Quotes

A good day wasn’t a day without clouds but rather a day when one focused on finding the sunlight behind the clouds.

Ben Mikaelsen

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• My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Life
  • Work
  • Happy

• According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Different
  • Changes
  • Looking

• Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Jesus
  • Genius
  • Poet

• The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Fall

• Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Relationship
  • Single
  • Balance

• Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Help
  • Singing
  • Deep

• People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • People
  • Think
  • Political

• Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Political
  • Religious

• The taxidermist is a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Future
  • Past
  • Present

• To eat, teeth must meet.

  

  Iris Murdoch

• Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.

  

  Larry Niven

• Proof must be solid break walls of facts.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Beginning

• I don't want little kids reading my comics.

  

  Jhonen Vasquez
  • Kids
  • Reading

• Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Night

• Because I'm such a die-hard New Yorker, I was skeptical of Montreal being a New York double.

  

  Meghann Fahy
  • Die

• The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.

  

  John Engler
  • School
  • Education

• I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired,'

  

  Brett Favre
  • Wife
  • Tired

• ..the art of futurism.. ..achieved great momentum in the first quarter of the Twentieth Century and remains a basic stimulus in the following forms of new art: Suprematism, Simultaneism, Purism, Odorism, Pankinetism, Tactilism, Haptism, Expressionism and Légerísm referring to Fernand Léger in the last ...ism, mentioned

  

  Kazimir Malevich
  • Great
  • Art

• I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Listening
  • Say Anything

• I'm a practical person. Most fashion people live in the clouds, and they're full of it. I live like a human being - or, I try to - and I have to be intelligent; I have to be practical. I'm a great believer in common sense, and the older I get, I see that common sense is not that common.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• A person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip a genius in society, if that person has focused goals.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Society
  • Education
  • Goal

• I voted numerous times when I was a Senator to spend money to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Money

• A good day wasn’t a day without clouds but rather a day when one focused on finding the sunlight behind the clouds.

  

  Ben Mikaelsen
  • Clouds
  • Focused
  • Sunlight