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

• 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

• My mom has given me my sense of style. She has taught me how individual style is so beautiful, what you appreciate on someone else might not be good for you. For her, style is all about being comfortable, and she has an innate sense of sophisticated style.

  

  Bibhu Mohapatra
  • Good
  • She
  • Beautiful

• If you get stuck, draw with a different pen. Change your tools; it may free your thinking.

  

  Paul Arden
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • May

• Something is always simple until you try it.

  

  Craig Bruce
  • Simple

• We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Hope
  • Conditions
  • Weapons

• Lead, Kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom,Lead Thou me on!The night is dark, and I am far from home-Lead Thou me on!Keep Thou my feet: I do not ask to seeThe distant scene,-one step enough for me.

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Home
  • Night
  • Light

• Allow not nature more than nature needs.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Needs
  • Excess
  • Lear

• 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