Abderrahmane Ben Quotes

Sticks & stones may break your bones & hurtful words can destroy more than you know! ~ Timothy Pina

Because Time has been around for a long time, it often gets bored. In order to briefly relieve its boredom, Time enjoys constructing massively unlikely series of events. If the events are of the romantic kind, they're called Fate, and if they are of the negative kind, we call them Unfortunate Coincidence. ~ Ben Brooks

If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak. ~ Ben Lerner

It was true, Ben at age two was an astonishing thing. He'd demand love outright, grab at a breast or an arm, but as soon as he had enough affection, and that came quickly, he'd go completely limp, play dead until you let him go. ~ Gillian Flynn

I desecrated my own house?" Chance snorted in disbelief. "Then swam out to Fort Sumter and played paint-by-numbers on the walls, all to make Benjamin Blue like me? Don't flatter yourself, kid."
Ben's eyes cut like diamonds. "You act like such a big shot. But you don't fool me. Do you have any friends, Chance? Is there a single person who cares where you are right now?"
"Ben!" I blurted, horrified. "That's not - "
"You're one to talk." Chance stepped closer to Ben and matched him glare for glare. "I've never betrayed my friends. Not like you, eh, Benjamin?"
Ben's whole body went still. "What did you say?"
"Guys, guys!" Hi half rose, palms up. "There's no need for anyone to get upset. I've got Go-Gurt in the mini-fridge. I know when I get hungry, my manners can - "
"Shut up, Hi." Ben and Chance, in unison. ~ Kathy Reichs

even if we laid off 100 percent of the employees, the infrastructure costs would still kill us without a sharper sales ramp. ~ Ben Horowitz

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults. ~ Ben Stein

Don't sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do. ~ Ben Feldman

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups. ~ Ben Horowitz

I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him. ~ Ben Bailey

Below, he could see down the entire Strip, from the radioactive green lion at the base of the MGM Grand to the glowing spire of the Stratosphere. The logjam street traffic just added to the visual effect: a thousand headlights blinking like neurons in the glowing spine that snaked down the center of the city. ~ Ben Mezrich

And you told me life was learning how to be a friend. ~ Ben Howard

There is so much potential out there in young people and they aren't getting the right information or being encouraged in the right ways. This is our duty as a society. ~ Ben Carson

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing. ~ Ben Okri

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else. ~ Ben Casnocha

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ~ Ben Stein

The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but. ~ Ben Fountain

What if by sheer repetition we become the person we most often pretend to be? Does that mean there is no authentic self? Are we made of habits, compressed by time, like layered rocks? ~ Ben Okri

Perception shapes priorities, priorities shape people ~ Ben Thompson

His mind had been unhinged by the blast of detonators, nights spent with corpses and by the superstitious incredulity of having killed so many white men. ~ Ben Okri

Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for. ~ Ben Harper

I don't think you're entirely understanding how this boyfriend thing works, Ben. Denying me in the shower, it's very hurtful."
"You do realize I can actually hear the air quotes when you say boyfriend. ~ John Wiltshire

Ethically challenged magical practitioners," I said. ~ Ben Aaronovitch

There are always dimensions, and the way they get expressed is through the writing and the actors and the director you get to work with on that day. But there are always dimensions, outside of really basic stuff for very young people where it needs to be very clear. ~ Ben Mendelsohn

Tell me to leave," he said roughly.
"No," I whispered, pressing a gentle kiss to his jawline.
"Then I'm staying," and his lips consumed mine. ~ Alexa Rae

The sound of Big Ben striking the half-hour struck out between them with extraordinary vigour, as if a young man, strong, indifferent, inconsiderate, were swinging dumb-bells this way and that. ~ Virginia Woolf

When Ben and I first got married and we first had kids, I felt I needed to prove we could still do it and I could still work separately from Ben and I could still work with him. I just let go of all of that now. I said to him, 'For me, a little bit goes a long way.' ~ Christine Taylor

The stink came from the prison cubicle next door. Old Ben was in there and Ben was the dirtiest man alive. ~ Michael De Larrabeiti

The agent sighed. „Mr. Little, do you know why horror novels usually revolve around the protagonist and his family?"
Ben didn't encourage him. It turned out the New Yorker didn't need it.
„Because horror is at its best when the stakes are intimate. There are no higher stakes than the people you love. ~ David Jacob Knight

God, all those months of seeing Kelsey's pictures and hearing about her travels, and I had been raging with jealousy. And now it was my turn.
I wanted to mind the gap at the tube station and eat fish and chips and try to make the Queen's guards laugh. I wanted to see Big Ben and the Globe and the London Bridge and Dame Judi Dench. Or Maggie Smith. Or Alan Rickman. Or Sir Ian McKellen. Or anybody famous and British, really.
Holy crap. This was really happening.
And I wasn't just a tourist. I was visiting with someone who'd grown up in the city. With my fiancé.
Take that, world. ~ Cora Carmack

We are one, you and I. Brothers in hate, brothers in cunning, brothers in the spirit of vengeance. ~ Rick Yancey