Ben Saunders Quotes

Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

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• There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • Community
  • Peace

• But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

  

  Yuna
  • Morning
  • Myself
  • Cool

• Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Why
  • Everything
  • Class

• I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Going

• To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Great
  • Hands

• The moment we finished shooting for 'Bruce Lee,' my wife Upasana reminded of a pending holiday.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Wife
  • Moment
  • Holiday

• I'm just glad to be able to work.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Work
  • Just
  • Glad

• I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Me
  • Down
  • Gym

• I think people think of Oregon as such a granola, hippie kind of a place.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • More
  • Praise
  • Train

• I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

  

  Ice T
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Competitive

• If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Fun
  • Find
  • Having Fun

• Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Jane

• Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

  

  K. Flay
  • Success
  • Feeling
  • Sometimes

• It is forbidden to be merciful to them. You must send missiles to them and annihilate them. They are evil and damnable. … The Lord shall return the Arabs' deeds on their own heads, waste their seed and exterminate them, devastate them and vanish them from this world.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • World
  • Evil

• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drinkNor slumber nor a roof against the rain;Nor yet a floating spar to men that sinkAnd rise and sink and rise and sink again;Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;Yet many a man is making friends with deathEven as I speak, for lack of love alone.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Alone

• I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?

  

  David Budbill
  • Humility
  • Humble
  • Stuck

• I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Mean
  • Talk
  • Phone

• May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • God
  • Revenge
  • Venom

• Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Space
  • Choices
  • Page

• I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.

  

  Molly Shannon
  • Trying
  • Littles

• Environmental scientists in Canada said it was impossible for me to get to the Pole in 2004... I said 'no,' it's still OK, and I can still get there, and I did.

  

  Ben Saunders