Ben Maher (Benjamin Richard "Ben" Maher MBE) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.
-
I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
-
Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
-
Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
-
Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
-
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
-
There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
-
My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
-
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
-
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
-
I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
-
You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
-
I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
-
I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
-
As a kid I didn't see black cowboys on the screen. What that said to me was that there were things I couldn't do or be because of my color. What we see others like us do gives us permission to expand our own horizons.
-
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
-
I go into a young film director's office these days and he says, 'Hey man, I know who you are. I grew up watching 'McHale's Navy'. And I think, 'Oh boy, here we go again'.
-
I would love to play a superhero. I sometimes walk around thinking, 'If I were a superhero, what would my superpower be?'
-
Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen.
-
At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.
-
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
-
I never considered writing as a career - it was always a creative outlet for me and something I just loved to do.
-
My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
-
If I wouldn't have become a showjumper I would have chased a career as F1 driver.
