Ben Jonson Quotes

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.

Ben Jonson

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• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Life
  • Information
  • Fast

• My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • She
  • Everyday

• I do my best to work out 5 days a week. There are times when I can only get in 3 days a week because I am traveling or just need rest due to a hectic schedule. But working out is always a priority, and if I fall off due to my schedule, it is not long before I get back on track.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Work
  • Priority
  • Traveling

• There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Small
  • Always
  • Same

• My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Friends
  • Future
  • College

• There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Right
  • Interest
  • Broadway

• I like the men to wear the pants. I don't want to wear the pants. I like men who know what they want, know what they're doing, make their own decisions... As much as I like to be the controller, it's not in my best interest.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Men
  • Best
  • Decisions

• He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

  

  Jack Kroll
  • Nature
  • Joy
  • Changes

• Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Work
  • Way
  • Actors

• How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Sense
  • Mother`s

• Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Children
  • Greatest
  • Crowded

• I swear my car won't run unless I'm picking my nose: At least, I'm that superstitious about it, so I don't want to take any chances.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Want
  • Car
  • Nose

• A cripple in the way out-travels a footman or a post out of the way.

  

  Ben Jonson

• Politeness , n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• The character of the victim has always something to do with his or her murder.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Character

• 'What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?'

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Cat

• My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Mind
  • She
  • Christian

• After Le Havre, I became the youngest player in the first division in Reunion. I made my debut at 16. That's how I got spotted by Nantes.

  

  Dimitri Payet
  • Player

• Being smart can make happiness elusive. Being REALLY smart can help you find it in more places than most.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Help
  • Happiness
  • Smart

• 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.

  

  Ben Okri
  • Vision

• I was trying to release emotions, exercise emotions, and then I entered the art world. Even after grad school, some of [the earlier works] were still lingering in my head. I realized there were some pieces where I felt that I had to respond to the criticism.

  

  Kalup Linzy
  • World
  • Trying
  • School

• It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Important
  • Temptation
  • Meet

• Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.

  

  Ben Jonson