Ben Schott Quotes

If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books.

Ben Schott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 26, 1974

Topics

LibraryLookGoStrangeLondonUp

Americans want to be exposed to the opportunities that a changing world can offer.

John B. Larson

WorldOpportunitiesWantChanging

The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.

John Berger

ConfidenceHopeDarknessFlameDark

I grew up singing in a church choir.

John Grant

SingingChurchChoirUpGrew

'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.

John Lasseter

LifeLearningJourneyEnjoy Life

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

ChildrenTeachTasteGiveShould

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

John Poindexter

GoodIdeasPossibleSureGood Ideas

It's the government's job to encourage entrepreneurialism and investment. Most importantly, it's the government's duty to inspire confidence.

Simon Cowell

ConfidenceJobGovernmentInspire

In 10000 BC, all human beings were hunter-gatherers; by 1500 AD, 1 percent were hunter-gatherers. Less than .001 percent of people are hunter-gatherers today.

Robyn Davidson

TodayPeopleHumanPercent1 Percent

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.

Roy Ayers

FatherMotherMusicPeopleMeUp

Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture.

Judith Butler

RevolutionLateMilitaryMovement

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

Clemence Poesy

LifeChangeBestPeopleThinkMeet

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese.

Peter Diamandis

TodayThinkYouStopInventionOver

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