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

• What chieftain, walking by himself, crying Most miserable, most victorious,Does not see these separate figures one by one, And yet see only one, in his old coat, His slouching pantaloons, beyond the town,Looking for what was, where it used to be?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Walking
  • Crying

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

  

  Patrick Rothfuss

• What I look for in a role is the physical. But what's the journey emotionally? Can I take this person who is this archetypal tough guy and find the beauty?

  

  Frank Grillo
  • Guy
  • Journey

• I like it now when kids stare at me, because it is a way of starting a dialogue. And it is far better than them not looking at you at all. Nothing is worse than not being seen.

  

  Aimee Mullins
  • Kids

• We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan and it could be done. We think Dodd-Frank, which we supported parts of, gave the FDIC the authority to take down a big bank.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • Done
  • Support

• It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.

  

  Brian Harvey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • World
  • Mind
  • Heart

• 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