Benjamin Quotes
The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth.
The only thing more intimidating than a huge international film star is your mother-in-law.
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.
If it doesn't feel like a job and I'm learning something and getting that rush that I get, I don't care if it's behind a camera, on a TV set, or on the moon.
Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
The place I feel most at home is when I have health insurance. I really don't care how I get it, whether it's on film, or television or waiting tables, you know?
My dad is kind of a rascal, like in a Dickensian sense. He just goes from career to career.
Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.
I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.
I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.
I went to Julliard and we did a lot of mask work there, and I remember thinking in class, 'When am I ever going to use this?
Keep as near as ever you can to the first sources of supply—fruits and vegetables.
The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
