Ben Lindsey Quotes

#1. There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#2. I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#3. Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

Ben Lindsey

#4. You can't get enough of your favorite meal until, in the next moment, you find you are so stuffed as to nearly require the attention of a surgeon - and yet, by some quirk of physics, you still have room for dessert.

Sam Harris

#5. My motivation was I wanted to look like my favorite super heroes when I was a kid. Pretty cheesy, but that is what got me started.

Scott Herman

#6. Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Ben Lindsey

#7. I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Ben Lindsey

#8. It is exhausting to be running around pretending to be scared at night - It sounds so wussy actory.

Zach Gilford

#9. Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

Plutarch

#10. I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.

Ted Demme

#11. Ben: You're gonna get arrested.
Lindsey Meeks: You can't sell your tickets!
Ben: That's why you ran across the whole field? ... Wait, you've got to tell me - was it spongy?

Jimmy Fallon

#12. I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.

Gerry Cooney

#13. Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child ... the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.

Ben Lindsey

#14. The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof that there is a devil but hardly evidence that there is a God.

Ben Lindsey

#15. It's good to do things slow in the bush. It makes you appreciate everything a lot more.

Ricky Williams

#16. Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?

Dwayne Andreas

#17. Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.

Mickey Spillane

#18. I like taking parts where I'm like: "I don't know how I'm going to do this exactly but I know I can do it." As opposed to doing something where you go: "There's nothing that I can contribute to this."

Scarlett Johansson

#19. No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

Thomas Lux

#20. I demand for the unmarried mother, as a sacred channel of life, the same reverence and respect as for the married mother; for Maternity is a cosmic thing and once it has come to pass, our conversation must not be permitted to blaspheme it.

Ben Lindsey

#21. It's the ciiiiiiiiiiiiircle of liiiiiiiiiife! Iggy sang

James Patterson

#22. I'm definitely a romantic, no doubt about it.

Michael Masser