Ben Jonson Quotes

The burnt child dreads the fire.

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• Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

  

  Ed Smith
  • War
  • Reality
  • End

• I usually say I left puberty at 58.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Say
  • Left
  • Puberty

• If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • You
  • Door
  • Sugar

• How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Without
  • Leisure

• I like to razz the Trekkies a little bit. Who doesn't? It's trainspotting, isn't it? But they are very well-meaning, actually. I've done a couple of Star Trek conventions, and they've only been really welcoming.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Done
  • Star
  • Couple

• I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Silence
  • Chaos
  • Meaning

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.

  

  Lana Wood
  • Actually
  • Divorced
  • Annulments

• I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Career
  • Football
  • Baseball

• A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Book
  • Think
  • Food

• As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Professional
  • Actor
  • Choice

• As a singer, you have to bring the soul to the song.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Soul
  • Song
  • You

• The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Way
  • Government
  • Tyranny

• A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Hurt

• When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Work
  • Feeling

• At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Know
  • Fashion
  • Sense

• I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • People
  • Different
  • Experience

• I really have to edit myself - I need someone with a censor button around me all the time. I'm just a little unaware of what's deemed appropriate.

  

  Andy Dick
  • Time

• The artist must learn the difference between the appearance of an object and the interpretation of this object through his medium. The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Art
  • Fire

• I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.

  

  Kathi Appelt
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts.

  

  Celine Buckens
  • Men
  • Equal
  • Clothings

• The burnt child dreads the fire.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Fire