Ben Miller Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
-
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
-
A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
-
I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
-
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
-
If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.
-
Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
-
I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
-
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
-
Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
-
It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
-
A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
-
Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
-
I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
-
When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
-
I believe everything is about balance. I'm not 100% vegan, and obviously my fiance and my friends are not vegan, so I have to come up with a menu that will satisfy everybody.
-
Part of me wants to stay involved in wrestling, because I love it. But the thing I loved most about it was the wrestling part of it. I didn't get into it to be famous or to be a TV star: I got into it because I loved the act of wrestling.
-
When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.
-
There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
-
Those who use tobacco, tea and coffee should lay these idols aside, and put their cost into the treasury of the Lord.
-
When I first started going to Portland, people told me about Stumptown. They were like 'Oh, it's the best coffee,' and I thought, 'How good could it really be?' I'm like, 'Sure, great, uh... I'd love to see it.' But then when I went, it truly, I am not kidding, is the best coffee I have ever had.
-
I'm very neurotic is what my closet says about me. It's always in great order.
-
I'm obsessed with coffee.
