Ben Aldridge (Benjamin Charles Aldridge) Quotes

The pursuit is everything, the doing of it, the expressing, not the outcome, but the creation of it.

Ben Aldridge

• Outcome
• Pursuit
• Expressing

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Want
  • Moments
  • Special

• It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Money
  • Song
  • You

• Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Religion
  • Christianity

• Time is the stuff of which life is made.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Stuff

• Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Future
  • Light
  • Morning

• We're not amazed, to say the least. We are enthralled by it, and it's a beautiful thing to see, but it's something that we've grown accustomed to over the years.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Beautiful
  • Accustomed

• You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Up
  • Poverty
  • Stage

• Who's gonna dare to be great?

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Great
  • Dare

• Whether it's one scene or 15 scenes in a film, whether it's the lead or a cameo part, if I don't find it interesting, I tend not to do it. You never really know what it is. It could be a one-scene part. I remember I read the one scene in Crash and was asked to do it. I was like, "Absolutely!" There's no formula for how something has to be. I always try to keep it that way.

  

  William Fichtner
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Interesting

• Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Child
  • Virtue
  • Gratitude

• This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Society
  • Wise
  • Conflict

• The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Music
  • Environment
  • Emotional

• A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Responsibility
  • Should
  • Leader

• Why do half the people I meet try to hit me with something? Yeah, yeah, I know, you don't even have to say it. "Because, the other half don't know me that well yet.

  

  Ari Marmell
  • People
  • Know
  • Hit

• I was not chosen to be president to restore capitalism to Cuba. I was elected to defend, maintain and continue to perfect socialism, not destroy it.

  

  Raul Castro
  • Perfect
  • President
  • Capitalism

• The time between your first major fight with your best friend until you make up is, for a teenage girl, about as long as it took for God to create the universe. . . . It's excellent training for having a boyfriend.

  

  Brando Skyhorse
  • God
  • Friend
  • Universe

• The pursuit is everything, the doing of it, the expressing, not the outcome, but the creation of it.

  

  Ben Aldridge
  • Outcome
  • Pursuit
  • Expressing