I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog.
Ben Mendelsohn
Related
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Once the rugby league finished, those that actually like the oval sports, the rugby league and the A...
EDDIE MCGUIRE The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to ...
JONNY GREENWOOD When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my...
OLLY MURS I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother fo...
RYAN REYNOLDS We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I'm going straight to my mum's place. There's nothing going on between me and Daniel. We were in a m...
SIENNA MILLER And then my dog came and sat in my lap. I knew I had to hang in there for Spike.
JOAN RIVERS I really hate relaxing. I've done three movies in a row, worked for two years straight, and to m...
LEONARDO DICAPRIO I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I can't think of any NBA team over the last few years that lost three starters. And we replaced ...
ISAIAH THOMAS When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog...
SANDY NATHAN I'm sorry, ... did you say Boris Karloff?
THE LEAGUE I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returnin...
LESLEY GARRETT It's basically Louisiana kids. If you can sign the top two or three Louisiana kids every year, you s...
BUTCH PIERRE The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.
SAM SNEAD It was frustrating for me personally to get something done in two to three months through the organi...
DENNIS PARKER He just needs a third pitch. Here's a guy who the Twins were asking for in a big-league trade two ye...
BILL BRYK I didn't plan to be a politician. The founder of our country, David Ben-Gurion, called me from t...
SHIMON PERES When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the ot...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN It's a real marvel. You have some other guys in the league that are basically being saved for the pl...
LAWRENCE FRANK I first came across Phil Larder in his rugby league days. He was the Director of Coaching at the Rug...
DAVE ELLIS I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the Pr...
JASPER FFORDE I basically committed two years of my life campaigning for candidates, building relationships and su...
GIFFORD MILLER I wouldn't last 30 seconds in rugby league.
GRAHAM LOWE I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league st...
RYAN GIGGS She crawled,” Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated m...
PATRICIA BRIGGS A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had...
TAB HUNTER My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were ve...
FRANCOIS NARS Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family ...
BRUNO MARS With the two- and three-year-old talent that I have now, it should make things interesting around Ch...
BRUCE WALLACE So that the record is put straight I have signed a two-year contract with Sydney but also behind the...
DWIGHT YORKE It's basically the same offer we had previously, but we were able to also put in a signing bonus of ...
SCOTT REED When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, thr...
DAVID SZE I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm...
JASON O'MARA I turned up my nose at yoga for years. I was a rugby player growing up. But now I know. When I'm...
JASON O'MARA We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck w...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER That would be a money-spinner for us, but more importantly a chance for us to bump our profile up an...
CHRIS O'CALLAGHAN I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just play...
DOUGLAS BOOTH For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the ...
HAMISH BOWLES My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to c...
C. EVERETT KOOP Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I mov...
DAVID JOHANSEN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from ...
VILLE VALO There’s no question of me leaving the team. I have been here for two years and I think I will stay...
DJIBRIL CISSE I hadn't been hanging around a knight errant for three years without learning that impossible things...
HILARI BELL I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was...
LEONARD COHEN The mayor did have the advantage among those who were unemployed and under 62 years old. And those a...
ED SARPOLUS That property sat for years and years and years.
DOMINIC A. PILEGGI We're a little shallow. Me and Ben are basically the only starting pitchers we have so far.
DAN CARLETON Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER We needed someone on the Board with rugby league expertise to assist with our bid for a Super League...
BILL MIDGLEY I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments ...
SAMUEL BECKETT It's clear to me rugby league players and clubs in general want to be seen to be more respectful to ...
CATHARINE LUMBY I was in jail nine straight years. I was on the lam two-and-a-half years before it. In that period o...
BURTON KAPLAN I kept waiting for Ben (center Ben Wallace ) to come back in. I guess (coach) felt that if things we...
ANTONIO MCDYESS Basically 50 and Scrappy were already good friends, ... While we were out on tour, 50 came to me wit...
LIL JON Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people. My fiance calls me Inga. No one aroun...
FOXY BROWN My week at school would be good or bad depending on whether Balmain won. I have such fond memories o...
MATTHEW NABLE Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the worl...
DOROTHY ALLISON [Then came Sydney. Crushed by the weight of expectations (] When I arrived here today, I was crying ...
HICHAM EL GUERROUJ The Lexington guards had two or three shots in the first half that were basically in and out. If tho...
ANDY LONG These guys have been successful for years. I've sat on opposing sidelines for years envying their su...
WILLIE ANDERSON My weakness in life is two men who seduce me all the time - named Ben & Jerry.
CORY BOOKER I had sat around campfires all my life, since I was 10 years old. I wanted the sound of water.
ED WARNER Sydney: I've waited for him for so long.
Ava: I know. Funny that he only came around once...
BRYNNA GABRIELSON Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the ...
DOROTHY ALLISON He's come downstairs and I pivoted a little bit too much and he came around the back and he smashed ...
DANNY GREEN When I left my Catholic school, I was around 10 or 11 years old, and it started to unravel for me th...
MARK RUFFALO Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. Th...
ROGER MARIS Three weeks ago nobody wanted to talk to me. I walked on at Sony and I got about two or three kids a...
BUBBA WATSON My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her...
NATALIE DU TOIT My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmer...
EMMA RIGBY I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorit...
BRIAN SETZER My dad has kind of been the standard for me, he played 16 years in the league, and since I've be...
STEPHEN CURRY I was tempted to use my 3-iron again after I three-putted two straight greens,
JERRY KELLY Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding...
ERYKAH BADU It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA They came straight across the street and observed one individual standing over the two victims that ...
JOHN WILSON I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking...
RAINN WILSON I didn't sign three years ago (with the Rangers) because I enjoy statistics. I enjoy winning, ... Yo...
BOBBY HOLIK He's mature beyond his years and he's got the excellent range of skills to kick on as far as some of...
JEFF MILLER We are baseball lovers and have been searching for over two years for the right opportunity in minor...
JASON FREIER I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nig...
KASKADE The gypsy in my soul is living on the road again, ... When I first started my career, I was on the r...
MAUREEN MCGOVERN My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.
YUL VAZQUEZ If a country were to build sufficient roads and railways over two to three years, it would solve the...
FIRMINO MUCAVELE My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa...
WENDY LIEBMAN I've been playing for nine years. My brother started two years before me so that had some influence....
LOUIS MEDINA I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest...
MARTY ROBBINS I might be playing in a summer league at Hudson Valley, getting in shape for next season. I want to ...
WHITNEY FRAMENT I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life,...
RICK ATKINSON Basically because of the hurricane we lost everything. We had no insurance. The tax base is totally ...
HERB SIRES I feel great. I didn't have any kick in my legs in Sydney two weeks ago but I had to hold it back to...
JANA PITTMAN When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The s...
DANIEL CUDMORE The first two months I imagined Godzilla, ... Then I got bored of that and I imagined different thin...
HANK AZARIA When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didn't listen to music for four days - that's a...
CARLOS SANTANA I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mand...
CHORD OVERSTREET
More Ben Mendelsohn
I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at tha...
BEN MENDELSOHN The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put f...
BEN MENDELSOHN My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormo...
BEN MENDELSOHN I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I thin...
BEN MENDELSOHN Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.
BEN MENDELSOHN Typically, I'll wake up at 4:30 in the morning. It's just the continual jet lag residue, jus...
BEN MENDELSOHN I had a pretty good career at home. What keeps you going is not having a plan B. It's a very goo...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Star Wars' is populated by so many great types; who wouldn't want to be a Han Solo kind...
BEN MENDELSOHN The thing about home is that it's a tough place to sustain a career, just by dent of the size of...
BEN MENDELSOHN I never felt like someone who was boyish and coming to terms with asking girls out or anything like ...
BEN MENDELSOHN I remember 'The Yearling' was the first film I ever saw, and my mom told me I cried for abou...
BEN MENDELSOHN The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their f...
BEN MENDELSOHN Before 'Animal Kingdom,' I wasn't particularly thought of in villainous roles.
BEN MENDELSOHN I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I'm working a lot.
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Animal Kingdom' is a lot of things, but it's not heartwarming.
BEN MENDELSOHN The very rough story is this: Melbourne boy, out of both my parents' houses at a young age, live...
BEN MENDELSOHN Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
BEN MENDELSOHN I think now there's much more of a confessional culture. That's not my bag. I come from a sl...
BEN MENDELSOHN You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it ind...
BEN MENDELSOHN You think of 'Outlaw Josey Wales,' you immediately think of the old Indian guy, Sondra Locke...
BEN MENDELSOHN As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
BEN MENDELSOHN It's good to surf whatever waves are going on right there as they're happening.
BEN MENDELSOHN I don't believe in the transformation myth, where if you have more success, life changes for you...
BEN MENDELSOHN I think it's that thing of growing up all the time watching American movies and listening to Ame...
BEN MENDELSOHN The first 'Star Wars' film was enormously important. I grew up right smack-bang in the sweet...
BEN MENDELSOHN I don't have memorabilia but try to take a bit of wardrobe, usually because they dress me better...
BEN MENDELSOHN At any period of an actor's life, it's fairly likely that they'll be cast in ways that a...
BEN MENDELSOHN I generally feel like people that are doing the wardrobe know more about wardrobe than I do, and the...
BEN MENDELSOHN One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I w...
BEN MENDELSOHN Once upon a time, they thought I was a sweet, wide-eyed boy that was just trying to figure out how t...
BEN MENDELSOHN $3,000 from a residual cheque was all I made one year.
BEN MENDELSOHN As an actor who has spent twenty years trying to crack America, the day I reached the 'Bloodline...
BEN MENDELSOHN 'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, ...
BEN MENDELSOHN For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always...
BEN MENDELSOHN We're seeing a shift in the federal government's understanding of the gravity of the situation facin...
ADAM MENDELSOHN It's important that the governor's office communicate with the prison guards because of the role the...
ADAM MENDELSOHN Look at where the state's economy was when he took office and where it is today after just 2 1/2 yea...
ADAM MENDELSOHN The governor has an ambitious agenda and a lot of exciting ideas. It's important that he communicate...
ADAM MENDELSOHN In just a few days, he met with the secretary of Homeland Security, the chief of staff to the White ...
ADAM MENDELSOHN The governor has always said that a healthy debate is a good thing for our party. He looks forward t...
ADAM MENDELSOHN This is a governor who repealed the car tax, passed workers compensation reform and continues to pay...
ADAM MENDELSOHN For the first time in a generation, the Legislature is talking about fixing the state's crumbling in...
ADAM MENDELSOHN The governor has met repeatedly with all the legislative leaders on this issue.
ADAM MENDELSOHN With our 10g release, we focused on making the Oracle Database easier to install, deploy, and manage...
ANDREW MENDELSOHN With our 10g release, we focused on making the Oracle Database easier to install, deploy, and manage...
ANDREW MENDELSOHN We have a lot of common customers who use both our products together. Now we'll be able to provide a...
ANDREW MENDELSOHN There are all kinds of possibilities we're exploring. You might be seeing it showing up in Oracle pr...
ANDREW MENDELSOHN I did and do believe, after all that I've seen and done, that if you project yourself into the mass ...
DANIEL MENDELSOHN I think the rise can continue a bit longer. We're going to hit some resistance soon from a technical...
PAUL MENDELSOHN Oracle is the only company poised to deliver database security technology that customers can use to ...
ANDY MENDELSOHN With Oracle Secure Backup, we're delivering a low-cost, high-performance alternative to the complex ...
ANDY MENDELSOHN It's a very sad day for Greenville and for the advertising community in general.
ANDY MENDELSOHN Be yourself, because you are the perfect YOU!
JACCI MENDELSOHN We're concerned with this game on many levels. In addition to the gangster element, it grossly misre...
BRUCE MENDELSOHN We feel it's our responsibility to educate the public about law enforcement safety. We're going to c...
BRUCE MENDELSOHN I certainly believe we want the manufacturer to know what kind of opposition there is to that game. ...
BRUCE MENDELSOHN We're stuck in a tight range with a lot of volatility as we try to break out.
PAUL MENDELSOHN I had traveled far, had circled the planet and studied my Torah, and at the very end of my search I ...
DANIEL MENDELSOHN I think in the first quarter we'll fall back into the 1210 to 1246 range on the S&P 500.
PAUL MENDELSOHN When commodity prices and energy prices weaken, technology stocks usually pick up the leadership and...
PAUL MENDELSOHN The reason doctors are so dangerous is that they believe in what they are doing.
ROBERT S. MENDELSOHN Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names...
BEN CARSON If we plant the right seeds, tomorrow will be better. If you put out good things, then you'll ge...
BEN VEREEN You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going ...
BEN CARSON We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was st...
BEN OKRI It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
BEN SHAPIRO Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the ...
BEN BERNANKE Each new day has a different shape to it. You just roll with it.
BEN ZOBRIST People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they as...
BEN MEZRICH Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transpare...
BEN GOLDACRE Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the ...
BEN HUH One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.
BEN SILBERMANN The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from ...
BEN OKRI No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I fee...
BEN CARSON Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. An...
BEN CARSON I grew up with an older brother, and the bond between siblings is unlike anything else, and it can b...
BEN SCHNETZER Distrust of government isn't baseless cynicism. It's realism.
BEN SHAPIRO The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where the...
BEN OKRI I used to collect knick-knacks, like wizards, trolls and little buddhas, and arrange them like preci...
BEN WHISHAW Entrepreneurs may be brutally honest, but fostering relationships with partners and building endurin...
BEN PARR Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquid...
BEN BERNANKE Most of these people are not going anywhere, and have nothing meaningful to do. They are zombies see...
BEN HINSON I was born Moishe Ketzelbourd but the Indians call me Maurice Cougar.
BEN KATCHOR I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics...
BEN ELLIOT Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
BEN MARCUS Obama wants to raise the issue of immigration reform so that he can demonize Republicans as anti-His...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and ...
BEN SHAPIRO Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO Hillary Clinton is not that fascinating a person. According to those who have spent time with her, s...
BEN SHAPIRO The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for t...
BEN SHAPIRO Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do ...
BEN SHAPIRO President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi...
BEN SHAPIRO There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences o...
BEN SHAPIRO I love bummer songs.
BEN GIBBARD There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get a...
BEN CARSON I hate the whole reluctant sex-symbol thing. It's such bull. You see these dudes greased up, in ...
BEN AFFLECK Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would ha...
BEN SHAHN The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern ...
BEN SHAPIRO I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up ...
BEN NELSON From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.
BEN PLATT 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White Hou...
BEN SHAPIRO If you put me in charge of the medical research budget, I would cancel all primary research, I would...
BEN GOLDACRE We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for...
BEN CARSON I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learni...
BEN AFFLECK Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, altho...
BEN BERNANKE In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennif...
BEN AFFLECK We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and...
BEN FOSTER The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.
BEN JOHNSON When you overpay small people you frighten them. They know that their merits or activities entitle t...
BEN HECHT I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human...
BEN SILBERMANN There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political r...
BEN HECHT We are more than just flesh and bones. There's a certain spiritual nature and something of the m...
BEN CARSON I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stor...
BEN KINGSLEY This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver ha...
BEN JONSON A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
BEN JONSON A third Cato has dropped from the skies.
BEN JONSON A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.
BEN JONSON Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
BEN JONSON It will never come out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.
BEN JONSON A countenance inconceivably forbidding.
BEN JONSON 'Late bloomer' is another way of saying 'slow learner.'
BEN FOUNTAIN To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Be...
BEN OKRI With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we a...
BEN PARR The decline in home equity makes it more difficult for struggling homeowners to refinance and reduce...
BEN BERNANKE Banks need to continue to lend to creditworthy borrowers to earn a profit and remain strong.
BEN BERNANKE Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a g...
BEN BERNANKE There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study ...
BEN HARNEY Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
...
BEN JONSON Since my boyhood, I have sought always to please, but out of a kindness in me, never out of fear or ...
BEN HECHT Economics is not brain surgery.
BEN CARSON Happiness is a journey not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the pas...
BEN HARPER If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on educa...
BEN CARSON Success is a journey, not a destination.
BEN SWEETLAND We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.
BEN WEININGER No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative.
BEN KINGSLEY I lost my own son (Steven) at 18, five years ago, in a car accident, so I can really sympathize with...
BEN HECHT People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less critic...
BEN HECHT I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
BEN HECHT In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a bro...
BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety
BEN HECHT Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravo...
BEN HECHT Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.
BEN HECHT Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
BEN HECHT Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.
BEN HECHT Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the...
BEN HECHT There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tort...
BEN STEIN I was tempted to tell her it was because we were British and actually had a sense of humour, but I t...
BEN AARONOVITCH But I do hate him as I hate the devil.
BEN JONSON You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN If he were
To be made honest by an act of parliament
I should not alter in my faith of him.
BEN JONSON Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
...
BEN JONSON Genius without education is like silver in the mine. -Ben Franklin.
BEN FRANKLIN Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BEN FRANKLIN It's just kind of surreal. We're trying not to think too far ahead but we know we have a lot of work...
BEN LINDSEY than any other man who ever ran for office in Denver.
BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something ha...
BEN LINDSEY Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something h...
BEN LINDSEY Do your best and let God do the rest.
BEN CARSON Force works on servile natures, not the free.
BEN JOHNSON Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN We want books that make our hearts beat harder... that relieve us of the agonizing burden of everyda...
BEN OLIVEIRA Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
BEN OKRI Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.
BEN CARSON 'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to beg...
BEN JONSON Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.
BEN JOHNSTON Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one st...
BEN SWEETLAND The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.
BEN HERBSTER Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
BEN STEIN In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.
BEN HECHT You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to ru...
BEN VEREEN Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.
BEN JOHNSON No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
BEN JOHNSON He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity
BEN JONSON I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiri...
BEN KINGSLEY I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
BEN HOGAN Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
BEN JIPCHO We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv...
BEN ELTON It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,...
BEN BERGOR A good poet's made as well as born.
BEN JOHNSON Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JOHNSON Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the t...
BEN HECHT Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h...
BEN JOHNSTON A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life...
BEN SWEETLAND When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to...
BEN JONSON Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.
BEN JOHNSON They that know no evil will suspect none.
BEN JONSON As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
BEN HOGAN I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connecte...
BEN HECHT Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the wors...
BEN HECHT Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- w...
BEN KINGSLEY We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.
BEN SWEETLAND Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
BEN BAYOL