Ben Zobrist Quotes

The more I spend at one position, the more I can dive into those details.

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• Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

  

  Oren Peli
  • Unknown
  • Scare
  • Shocking

• Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • World
  • Character
  • Book

• I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Pretty
  • Myself
  • Lawyer

• It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Writing
  • True
  • Break

• Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Like
  • Should
  • Novelists

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Always
  • My Life

• The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Power
  • Hope

• The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Like
  • Media
  • Talk

• Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• When my children say, 'In the future, Mummy, will things get better or worse for humanity?' I say: 'Who knows, since Amy Winehouse died. It's all in the air now. Eat your broccoli.'

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Children
  • Future
  • Humanity

• I come from a poor family.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Family
  • Poor
  • Come

• Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Great
  • Family
  • American

• I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Know
  • Moment
  • Fans

• Delhi is full of energy. It is special to me because I have shot my first film here, and it is closer to my home town Chandigarh. I love the food, the vibe, and the people here.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Home
  • Energy

• You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • You
  • Healthy
  • Diet

• If the books are selling, the money will follow.

  

  Larry Kirshbaum
  • Money
  • Follow
  • Selling

• If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Rulers
  • Mischief
  • Self-Respecting

• What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.'

  

  Bobby Flay
  • Time
  • Great

• Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Drawing
  • Convinced
  • Copies

• The more I spend at one position, the more I can dive into those details.

  

  Ben Zobrist