Ben Miller Quotes

I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?

Ben Miller

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• What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Negative

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Remember
  • Words

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Song
  • Being
  • Lyrics

• The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • You
  • Product
  • Extraordinary

• When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sexism

• Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Remember
  • Sun
  • Find

• I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Change
  • Desire
  • Better

• And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Believe
  • Law
  • I Believe

• Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • House
  • Lost
  • Thought

• I have no regrets.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Movie
  • Growing
  • Video

• Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Up
  • You
  • Director

• It is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Children

• So you went looking for a myth and found a man.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.

  

  Brian Wilson

• Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Risk
  • Courage

• My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long.

  

  Armin Zoggeler
  • Good
  • Long
  • Desire

• The thing that always struck me about 'Jonny Quest' is: What kind of parent brings his kid to the Amazon so that yetis can throw boulders at him?

  

  Christopher McCulloch

• I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Children

• When on the eve of glory, whilst brooding over the prospects of a bright and happy future, whilst meditating upon the risky right of justice, there we remain, wanderers on the cloudy surface of mental woe, disappointment and danger, inhabitants of the grim sphere of anticipated imagery, partakers of the poisonous dregs of concocted injustice. Yet such is life

  

  Amanda McKittrick Ros
  • Future
  • Danger
  • Disappointment

• I used to fantasise about being able to stay up all night; now I fantasise about how early I can go to bed. Tragic isn't it?

  

  Ben Miller
  • Night
  • Tragic
  • Fantasise