Ben Miller Quotes

I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy friends over the years.

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• You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Important
  • Money
  • Success

• Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Youth
  • To Love

• The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.

  

  Larry King
  • School
  • Ahead
  • Graduated

• I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • High
  • Light
  • Focus

• But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • May
  • Soul
  • Freedom

• The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Business
  • Years
  • New

• You're only as good as your last haircut.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Funny
  • Haircut

• It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • True

• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Know
  • Dance
  • Independent

• I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'

  

  Ice Cube
  • Done
  • Man
  • Black

• When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.

  

  Kaskade
  • Life
  • Good
  • Guy

• Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Will
  • Strength
  • Physical

• I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Know
  • Me

• Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.

  

  Callie Hernandez
  • People
  • Truth
  • Bad

• My skills are still my skills.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Skills
  • Still

• I had to do something for the country.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Country
  • Something
  • Had

• Be thrifty, but not covetous.

  

  George Herbert

• That little white ball won't move until you hit it, and there's nothing you can do after it has gone.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Game
  • Ball

• I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • Freedom
  • Reading
  • Promise

• I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Night

• I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy friends over the years.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Friends
  • Science Book
  • Compendium