Ben Stein Quotes

Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.

Ben Stein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 25, 1944

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FearGreatAchievementSleepI Am

Most ankle strap shoes are seriously unattractive, cutting the line of the leg as well as cutting off the circulation! Try dancing in them - your feet will look like a pair of overdone hotdogs afterwards.

Joan Collins

ShoesFeetLookSeriouslyWillTry

Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.

Jerry Saltz

WorkArtMeProblemsArtistWrong

I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean, we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.

Jeremy Irons

WorkGreatQualityThinkNobodyWay

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

John Dryden

HappinessManThoughtsCareMayHis

Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown.

Melvyn Bragg

WorldBookFreeNumbersSaidWay

What would you rather do? Fix a small problem well or answer a small problem well or flail around at the big ones and pay a lot of lip service?

Stephen J. Dubner

ServiceSmallProblemYouFixPay

Every time I am off the tennis tour, I go back home.

Tomas Berdych

HomeTimeI AmBackGoTennis

I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

Monique Coleman

BluesObsessed

I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.

Deion Sanders

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There are plenty of writers who are going to become a director after their next job, but no one will believe you're a director unless you believe it.

Brian Helgeland

JobBelieveYouWillBecomeGoing

With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.

Chuck Todd

HistoryWarPartyProveMessyTwo

A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.

Wole Soyinka

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