Ben Hur Movie Quotes & Sayings

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

A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible. — Marty Neumeier

I love a bright lip with a neutral eye. It's an easy, wearable look that gives brightness to your face without looking over-the-top. — Bobbi Brown

How easy I was. Like a limpet I attached myself to anything, anyone who showed me the least attention. — Janet Fitch

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women. — Mary Heaton Vorse

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

I love going on dates and talking. — Erin Heatherton

After one kiss you're already looking to get rid of me? — Savannah Stuart

Chronicler found himself thinking of a story he had heard. One of the many. The story told of how Kvothe had gone looking for his heart's desire. He had to trick a demon to get it. But once it rested in his hand, he was forced to fight an angel to keep it. — Patrick Rothfuss

She hears all the voices from when she was little, soothing, strengthening: Don't be scared, not of monsters, not of witches, not of big dogs. And now, snapping loud from every direction: Be scared, you have to be scared, ordering like this is your one absolute duty. Be scared you're fat, be scared your boobs are too big and be scared they're too small. Be scared to walk on your own, specially anywhere quiet enough that you can hear yourself think. Be scared of wearing the wrong stuff, saying the wrong thing, having a stupid laugh, being uncool. Be scared of guys not fancying you; be scared of guys, they're animals, rabid, can't stop themselves. Be scared of girls, they're all vicious, they'll cut you down before you can cut them. Be scared of strangers. Be scared you won't do well enough in your exams, be scared of getting in trouble. Be scared terrified petrified that everything you are is every kind of wrong. Good girl. — Tana French

A newspaper story, like anything else, is more attractive from a distance, when it first comes to you, than it is when you get in close and agonize over the details. Which I presume is how Yardley got in the habit of keeping himself at a distance. — Pete Dexter

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why. — Margaret Geller

My work is always a ready-made ... cultural, political, or social, and also it could be art - to make people re-look at what we have done, its original position, to create new possibilities. — Ai Weiwei

I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad. — Ruth Reichl