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

• Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Taken

• 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

• My first acting job was a Breck commercial.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Job
  • Acting
  • First

• 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

• Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.

  

  William Cowper
  • Writing
  • War
  • History

• Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite

  

  P. C. Cast
  • People
  • Mother
  • Memories

• I think I've been a good boy long enough and given everyone around me a fair piece of the pie as far as all of the fleeting glory and reward that comes from the heavens - or the music press, whatever you want to call it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Glory
  • Reward

• If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and error, the world is our oyster!

  

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli
  • World
  • Daughter

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

  

  Ben Jonson