Ben Quotes

My cousins gay, he went to London only to find out that Big Ben was a clock. (Rodney Dangerfield)
And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Maybe, thought Ben, we are all cabinets of wonders. View quote
Brian Selznick
It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley. View quote
Aaron Eckhart
Ben Vereen is going to be on the show with me, too. View quote
Liza Minnelli
This is what historians usually do, quibble about cause and effect when the point is, there are times when the world is in flux and the right voice in the right place can move the world. Thomas Paine and Ben Franklin, for instance. Bismark. Lenin. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets. View quote
William Faulkner
A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it. View quote
Stephen King
Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew the truth about them, they would be held in more contempt than Ben Johnson, the runner, and they're going to know the truth when I do this book! View quote
Bobby Fischer
Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man He 's ben on all sides thet give places or pelf But consistency still wuz a part of his plan, He 's ben true to one party, an' thet is himself. (James Russell Lowell)
Long ago, Ben Graham taught me that "Price is what you pay; value is what you get.” Whether we're talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down. View quote
Warren Buffett
For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is. View quote
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms; But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms. View quote
Thomas Hood
Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates - that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized - I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey - I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all. View quote
Arthur Miller
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely. View quote
Matt Cameron
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for. View quote
Brian Selznick
I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack." He pulled away. "What if being packmates isn't enough for me? View quote
Kathy Reichs
Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions.” Ben shot Hi a stern look. "No running commentary.” "Your loss,” Hi said. "To the pimp ride! View quote
Kathy Reichs
Ben locked his eyes on mine for a long moment. Then, "How?” "How do you think?” I smiled, then slapped him full across the face. View quote
Kathy Reichs
Im studying jerkoffs in the wild," Ben answered dryly. "This seemed like a good chance to view one up close. (Kathy Reichs)
Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wall...Once again, only Ben's reflexes had saved him. "Please stop doing that!” Ben barked. "Please keep doing that!” Hi warbled. View quote
Kathy Reichs
My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed. View quote
Alan Bradley
The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio. View quote
Beth Orton