Ben Katchor Quotes

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

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• I want to avoid injuries by running only road.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Want
  • Running
  • Road

• Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Write

• I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Movies
  • Right
  • Thing

• Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • American
  • Control

• On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Values
  • Listen
  • Talk

• We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Family
  • Human
  • Unity

• I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • City
  • Summer
  • Spring

• There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • City

• The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Time
  • Imagination
  • Nose

• The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Look
  • Winter
  • Diamonds

• I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Start

• My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Success
  • Professional
  • Act

• Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Sex
  • Degree

• I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type a question into Google and watch the question auto-fill. In that moment, we know someone else has asked that same question. The gift of realizing you're not alone is incredibly powerful.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Alone
  • Question
  • Powerful

• The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • True
  • Silence
  • Genius

• I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Want
  • Intelligent
  • Prove

• I've done a lot of serious roles, but they're, like, independent, so it's harder for them to come out. The big ones have been comedies, but I would love to get a big drama to let people see the other side of me, that I am a serious actress.

  

  Tara Reid
  • People
  • Drama
  • Independent

• What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Business

• He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • True
  • Quality
  • Talent

• Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Environment

• Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Theatre

• I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Work
  • Family
  • Opinion

• I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

  

  Ben Katchor