Ben Elliot Quotes

I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.

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• I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • School
  • Kids
  • Like

• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Should
  • Disagreement

• We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Up
  • Business
  • Want

• When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Hope
  • Smile
  • Seeing

• Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Decision
  • Military
  • Force

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• History's a resource.

  

  Laura Linney
  • History
  • Resource

• I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • Progress
  • Acting

• My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Dad
  • Son
  • Sad

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see any daylight, so you really make the most of it.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Nice
  • End

• I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Music
  • Think
  • Questions

• I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Simple
  • Like
  • Thing

• For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Value
  • Integrity

• One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • She
  • Sometimes
  • Write

• I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • Book

• I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.

  

  Emmy Rossum
  • People
  • Friends

• It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.

  

  John Amery
  • Up
  • World
  • Giving

• My father, Phillip Gilmore, was very talented. He was getting seriously into dancing. He was on 'Soul Train' and won $2,500. But the Bay Area was too small for him. I don't think he had the space to do what he needed to do.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Father
  • Soul
  • Small

• There is a saying, 'Eyes are the windows to the soul.' It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don't know, I'd like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color.

  

  Peng Liyuan
  • People
  • True
  • Soul

• I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses.

  

  Ben Elliot
  • Small
  • English
  • Habit