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Ben Stein Quotes

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Live God Man Sometimes Like He

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

Parents Problem Now Stealing Kids

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

Heart Words Saying Learn Year First

'UnREAL' has always been provocative and bitingly honest, which makes the show what it is.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Always Honest Show Been Provocative

The emotional side of humans interacting with each other is what makes TaskRabbit what it is.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

Emotional Side Other Humans Makes

The Egyptian Nile, though it does have its own particular hazards, is subject to none of what I find in Rhode Island. Since the Aswan High Dam was built in 1973, the Nile has become something of a grand canal. It is wide, flat, slow, and so calm it verges on the geriatric.

Rosemary Mahoney

Calm Slow Find Island Become High

I have this old speaker set with amps and a record player from the 1970s. And I'm slowly collecting vinyl again.

Michiel Huisman

Old Vinyl Again Slowly Set Player

Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.

Language Through Cannot Understood

We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses.

Work Security Meeting Done Fired

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

Education Fun Chaos Have Fun Regret

I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning.

Learning Done Repeat Keep Pushing

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

Grow Push You Back Know Want

I didn't study English literature - I studied philosophy at university - so Kierkegaard, Nietzsche - these people are among the most important writers to me. So my interest is in the big questions more than it is in storytelling.

People Me Questions Literature Study

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