Ben Hogan Quotes

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

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• I went through a lot in middle school, and you always try so many different looks and try to be so many different people. I finally realized I'm awkward, I'm lanky, and I'm going to embrace it - make fun of myself and just laugh.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Real
  • True
  • Me

• The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • American
  • Rest

• During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Play
  • Scary
  • Emotions

• The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Character
  • Action

• Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Lies
  • Living
  • Here

• It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Job
  • Outfit
  • Compensate

• I am trying every genre.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Trying
  • Genre

• My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Son
  • Baby
  • Doing

• Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Own

• I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.

  

  Edmond About
  • Name
  • Danger
  • Conversation

• Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Past
  • Theatre

• None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Time
  • Construction

• Another friend began to say, 'Well, Quentin has a problem of adjusting himself to society and he...' This sentence was never finished. The ballet teacher expostulated, 'I don't agree. Quentin does exactly as he pleases. The rest of us have to adapt ourselves to him.'

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Society
  • Friend
  • Rest

• It is not a little Surprising that Christianity, whose chief excellence consists of softening the human heart, in cherishing and improving its finer Feelings, should encourage a Practice so totally repugnant to the first Impression of Right and Wrong. What adds to the wonder is that this Abominable Practice has been introduced in the most enlightened Ages.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Heart
  • Wonder
  • Practice

• I had to show that the Bible dealt with an encounter between God and Man. I thought only of the apartness of God. What I had to learn after that was the togetherness of Man and God - a union of two totally different kinds of beings.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Different
  • Bible

• I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Good
  • Soldier
  • Lazy

• I realize that 'Postcards' was like input, and 'Ghostwriting' was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those two projects. 'Postcards' was something that brought new life and creative inspiration into the record, while 'Ghostwriting' was relieving myself.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Inspiration
  • Record
  • Postcards

• When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Free
  • Way
  • Secrecy

• Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Success
  • Story
  • Monster

• The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat.

  

  Sarah Bernhardt
  • Praise
  • Monster
  • Gossip

• In today's society, the forces against you are heavy against you. The whole goal is to get knowledge of yourself, but people are so far from themselves that they don't believe themselves.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

  

  Ben Hogan
  • Monster