Ben Whishaw Quotes

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

Ben Whishaw

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• I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Time
  • Work
  • Game

• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • History
  • Game

• My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Me
  • Husband
  • Balance

• There's no regrets for me.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Me
  • Regrets
  • No Regrets

• There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Something
  • Soothing
  • Hum

• I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Singing
  • Face

• I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfortable

• The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • President
  • Him
  • Lights

• I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Long
  • Control

• The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • God
  • Family

• In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Why
  • Stop

• We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Parents
  • Water

• Music was as natural as breathing in our house.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Music
  • House

• Come, let us mount on the wings of the morning, Flying for joy of the flight, Wild with all longing, now soaring, now staying, Mingling like day and dawn, swinging and swaying, Hung like a cloud in the light: I am immortal! I feel it! I feel it! Love bears me up, love is might!

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Up
  • Light
  • Joy

• As for the Soothsayer, although I am certain no one feels the true beauties of that work better than I, I am far from finding these beauties in the same places as the infatuated public does. They are not the products of study and knowledge, but rather are inspired by taste and sensitivity.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Work
  • True
  • Knowledge

• I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

  

  John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival
  • People
  • Live
  • Trying

• In politics, they don't want anything that deters whatever their goal is. When people get in the way of that, that's when people get hurt - and sometimes destroyed.

  

  Bert Lance
  • People
  • Hurt

• The timing issue is something the writers are working on right now. But the sky's the limit at that point for them, because we would not be restricted by the time element.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Time
  • Sky
  • Issues

• Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

  

  John Leonard
  • Game
  • Hand
  • Football

• The green movement got really hot really fast, but then the economy took a turn and it became clear exactly what's at stake, so I think somehow celebrities got a bad rap when they were trying to do good.

  

  Elizabeth Rogers
  • Good
  • Economy
  • Movement

• I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

  

  Ben Whishaw