Ben Miller Quotes

Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.

Ben Miller

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• I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Never
  • Consciousness

• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Fashion
  • End

• Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Reading
  • Standardized

• I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

  

  Carl Spitteler
  • Left
  • August
  • Stayed

• It's very irresponsible to deny the reality of a problem to see whether it might stop existing.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Reality
  • Stop
  • Problem

• When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Movie

• I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Me
  • Listening

• Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Think

• I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Crime

• Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future.  And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Present

• I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Movie
  • Waiting
  • I Can

• New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

  

  Takashi Murakami
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Art

• Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Fear

• You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time

• Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

  

  Epictetus
  • Master
  • Avoid
  • Controls

• Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Soul
  • Game
  • Dream

• Life is a mystery: you've just got to go with it.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Mystery
  • Life is