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

• Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Live
  • Alone
  • Beauty

• 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

• I'd like there to be less refugees. I'd like all girls to go to school. That's what we need to be thinking about, and working on making our own families good and strong and our own kids happy.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • School

• I used to say that 'happy' was like 'lucky,' kind of imaginary. But now that I'm married and have children, I find that happiness is a real space.

  

  Jeffrey Wright
  • Children
  • Real
  • Happy

• One of the things that I love about crime novels is that you can turn the volume all the way up. If I can make somebody blow their subway stop, I win.

  

  Marcus Sakey
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Blow

• Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn't work very well. So, he advised sending I messages. That is, a better alternative to, Your room is a disaster area-clean it up this minute, would be something like, I get embarrassed when Mrs. Johnson is visiting and sees your room looking this messy, so I need you to clean it up.

  

  Ben Yagoda
  • Children
  • Ability
  • Messages

• Of course, there was Hobart. The Inspector was probably insane, but that was all to the good. And he had one particular aspiration which Shadwell knew he might one day need to turn to his own ends. That was, to lead-as Hobart put it-a righteous crusade.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Good

• I never read articles about my books.

  

  Ben Schott