Ben Jonson Quotes

What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?

Ben Jonson

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• I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Words
  • Things
  • Write

• On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Love
  • Question

• My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• The weather in California is so much hotter than it is in England that it's absolutely changed my style. I have many more dresses and shorts than I ever thought I would coming from U.K.! It's so much easier to dress femininely in a warm climate.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Style
  • California
  • Weather

• Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Long
  • Family
  • Know

• Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Morning
  • Best

• George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Great
  • President
  • Candidate

• One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• À quelle heure, s'il vous plaît?

  

  Victor Hugo

• The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Work
  • Culture

• Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Action

• To have won a place in his heart among all those he has mentored and created, itself is a distinction.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Heart

• The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.

  

  Ai Weiwei

• Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Work

• Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Strong
  • Equality

• If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • People
  • Music

• I will support my party when they are right on an issue, but am not afraid to stand up to party bosses who are not looking out for the best interests of my constituents and our country.

  

  Darlene Senger
  • Up
  • Country
  • Support

• I still like the physicality of papers.

  

  David Muir

• Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Up
  • Music
  • Culture

• The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the back pasture and the near meadow, and they are issued in a new revised edition every April.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Live
  • Real
  • Spring

• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Desire
  • Memories
  • Spring

• After the play of 'Fleabag,' we had conversations with different channels and with film companies about whether 'Fleabag' should be a half-hour sitcom, an hourlong, serialized drama, or a film. And I knew that it couldn't be a drama because I wanted to hide the drama - that had to be the surprise. I knew it had to be comedy.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Different
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?

  

  Ben Jonson
  • April