Ben Schott Quotes

I spend a lot of time looking at rococo books. And almanacs used to be huge sellers - they were pretty much part of the fabric of life. I thought, this is bizarre, I'd love to buy a book like this, and there isn't one. So I thought, all right then, this could be fun. I'll write an almanac.

Ben Schott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeLoveTimeFunLookingBook

I work 110-hour weeks.

Joe Lonsdale

WorkWeeks

I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.

John Carpenter

MusicEnoughWantSeeWatchSeen

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

Johann Lamont

TogetherAmbitionWorldTalkReal

We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we're actually working hard.

Meghan Daum

WorkGivingWorking HardHardAvoid

Very early, it became clear to me that East Germany could not function.

Angela Merkel

MeEarlyClearFunctionEastVery

I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my parents, I'll often cry. I become too emotional.

Ana Ivanovic

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We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.

Sterling Marlin

GoodTogetherWinChanceThinkYear

Sex is... perfectly natural. It's something that's pleasurable. It's enjoyable and it enhances a relationship. So why don't we learn as much as we can about it and become comfortable with ourselves as sexual human beings because we are all sexual?

Sue Johanson

RelationshipLearnSexWhyBecome

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

Tom Stoppard

LifeMeStrikeBeingEventState

Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

Romesh Gunesekera

PoetryPlaceKindIslandLandLevel

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.

Christopher McDougall

FaceCommon SenseBiologyStatistics

Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that's when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.

Christoph Waltz

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