Ben Mezrich Quotes

I see myself as an entertainer.

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• I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Political
  • Fighting

• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• Food can change anything.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Food
  • Change
  • Anything

• Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Food
  • Philosophy
  • Roast

• The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Los Angeles

• Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Eating

• I can count my friends on one hand.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Friends
  • Hand
  • I Can

• For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

  

  Rand Paul
  • History
  • You
  • Build

• A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Stretch

• The measure of woman’s distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr’s crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Life
  • She
  • Lies

• Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims, or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there. It gives one the image of a giant's den in a romance, bestrewed with scattered heads and mangled limbs.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Up

• Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule.

  

  Jean Piaget
  • Work

• There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Worry

• She broke off, unable to find words to frame her struggling thoughts. What life would be with Hori, she did not know. In spite of his gentleness, in spite of his love for her, he would remain in some respects incalculable and incomprehensible. They would share moments of great beauty and richness together - but what of their common daily life?

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• Thought is something limitless and independent, and has been mixed with no thing but is alone by itself. ... What was mingled with it would have prevented it from having power over anything in the way in which it does. ... For it is the finest of all things and the purest.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Independent

• I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of an humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Believe
  • Power

• I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.

  

  James Balog

• I'm a late developer.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas

• I'd rather have head stomps and kicks to the head on the ground rather than elbows because I think to kick someone in the head while they're laying on their back is very hard. Elbows are easy. You can be here, and I just cut you and won the fight.

  

  Demetrious Johnson

• I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show.

  

  Anna Gavalda
  • Bored
  • Faults
  • Qualities

• I've learned a tremendous amount from Oprah.

  

  Phil McGraw

• The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Children
  • Home
  • Question

• I see myself as an entertainer.

  

  Ben Mezrich