Ben Jonson Quotes

Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand.

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• If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Want
  • Name
  • Charity

• I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Never
  • See
  • Talk

• At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • People
  • Years
  • Old

• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • World
  • Blue
  • Born

• I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'

  

  Zara Cox
  • Black
  • Lies
  • Loved

• Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • People
  • Want
  • Gossip

• As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Long
  • Want
  • Health

• I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Drunk
  • Before
  • Got

• I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Work
  • Real
  • Family

• We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Smart
  • Leadership

• I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Great
  • Country
  • Society

• Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• I'm a slow starter.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Slow
  • Starter

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Money
  • Change

• The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Movie
  • Eyes
  • Down

• Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his life, and this is mine. It is not the best book I ever encountered, perhaps, but it is for me the handiest, and I keep it about me in much the same way one carries a handkerchief - for relief in moments of defluxion or despair.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life
  • Men
  • Thinking

• My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Man
  • Me
  • Dad

• Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • People
  • Guy
  • Bike

• He is and may be but oh! He is, he is, This foundling of the infected past, so bright, So moving in the manner of his hand. Yet look not at his colored eyes. Give him No names. Dismiss him from your images. The hot of him is purest in the heart.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Heart
  • May
  • Past

• I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Pray thee, take care, that tak'st my book in hand, To read it well: that is, to understand.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Book
  • Hand