Ben Schott Quotes

I never read articles about my books.

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• Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Marriage
  • Clothes
  • Worst

• A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.

  

  Gary Speed
  • People
  • Player
  • Golf

• I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• I have more friends in New York than Paris.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Friends
  • New
  • New York

• The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Success
  • Organization
  • Communication

• My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Love
  • Job
  • Fear

• In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • World
  • Death
  • Transformation

• If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Actors
  • Talented

• I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Audience
  • Potential
  • Seeing

• I'm not going away. I'll still be very much involved in the team but not with the same number of hours. I need to move over and allow the people who are really doing the job the space to do so.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • People
  • Job
  • Team

• I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Students
  • Class
  • Whatever

• The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Live
  • Education
  • Learning

• Creating a nation requires the will of the people!

  

  Edmund Barton
  • People
  • Nation
  • Creating

• I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Imagine

• In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Future
  • Past
  • Prepare

• I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'

  

  Laura Riding
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Nature

• Let us labor to add all needful guarantees for the more perfect security of free thought, free speech, and free press, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and of equal rights and privileges to all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Men
  • Free
  • Perfect

• Tugend ist zur Energie gewordne Vernunft.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

  

  Tertullian
  • Soul
  • Christ
  • Birth

• It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Men
  • Waiting
  • Special

• We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Time
  • Support
  • Rules

• I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I never read articles about my books.

  

  Ben Schott