Ben Hur Quotes

#1. Tate University - a large football stadium with a college attached.

Harold Lloyd

#2. The wife of Ben-Hur, sat in her room in the beautiful villa by Misenum. It was noon, with a warm Italian sun making summer for the roses and vines outside. Everything in the apartment was Roman,

Lew Wallace

#3. I didn't want to be an actor. I wanted to design historical movies like 'Ben-Hur'. I saw this as my life.

Dante Ferretti

#4. BEN-HUR." Esther returned the letter to her father, while a choking sensation gathered in her throat. There was not a word in the missive for her
not even in the salutation had she a share
and it would have been so easy to have written "and to thine, peace." For the first time

Lew Wallace

#5. In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because they [Oscar voters] loved to hand out awards to big productions, like 'Ben-Hur.' Today it's fashionable to give the Oscar to a small movie that nobody saw.

Sigourney Weaver

#6. I spend as much time as possible at my stable in the Hollywood Hills. It keeps me sane.

Winter Ave Zoli

#7. Skijoring is just something that people want to see, it's like Ben Hur on snow, the modern way. I love the speed, the adrenalin rush is something special. It's just unique.

Charlton Heston

#8. I dared to dream.......I dared to believe the dream.....I dared to live the dream. I am glad it became real.

Bayode Ojo

#9. Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Joseph Stiglitz

#10. There isn't a single windmill owner in Holland who doesn't have a second job, for when there is no wind.

Johnny Ball

#11. ELANTRIS is a new BEN HUR for the fantasy genre, with a sweeping, epic storyline and closely personal characters.

Kevin J. Anderson

#12. Gotta bounce," I say, remembering that's what I heard someone say to someone sometime somewhere, at school or maybe it was on TV, or in a movie, probably not even from this decade, but who cares, all I know is I have to get away before I evaporate or crumple or cry.

Jandy Nelson

#13. This is where I belong. Wherever you are. Always.

J. Daniels

#14. It's very productive scientifically; I often get some very good ideas for my research while hiking.

Reinhard Selten

#15. To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

Gore Vidal

#16. Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Simone De Beauvoir

#17. Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism.

Camille Paglia

#18. Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

Dick Armey

#19. The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.

Ben Hur Lampman

#20. Ben Hur, who said to his sister Ben Him, We'd better swap names before they start calling me Ben Gay! Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#21. Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process.

Tom Robbins

#22. The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards.

Roberto Benigni

#23. My boy," returned my father, "you must not judge by the work, but by the work in connection with the surroundings. Could Giotto or Filippo Lippi, think you, have got a picture into the Exhibition? Would

Samuel Butler

#24. During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.

Gore Vidal

#25. But even if he had dreamed, even if dreamlike images arose from the edges of his mind, they would have nowhere to perch on the slippery slopes of his consciousness, instead quickly sliding off, down into the void.

Haruki Murakami

#26. While you sit
Like a rain puddle in hell
Knitting the socks
Of your life.

Charles Simic

#27. The spirit knows the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. The time between appearances for us is so great that we lose track of it. It would be like watching 'Ben Hur' at one frame a second. There would be long periods of time where absolutely nothing was going on.

Dwight Schultz