Ben Hur Quotes

• I was taught to be Biblical: “Forgive them for they know not what they do.

  Michael Jackson

  Forgiveness, Biblical, Christ On The Cross

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

  Ben Hur Lampman

  Dog, Heart, Loss

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• 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

  Gay, Names, Calling

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• 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

  Christian, Art, Epic

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• 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

  Corn, Fields, Saws

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the past, 'Avatar' would have won because 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

  Past, Awards, Hands

  "Sigourney Weaver attacks Oscar voters". www.newyorkpost.com. April 13, 2010.

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• The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.

  Roberto Benigni

  Saws, Firsts, Backwards

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Character, Epic, Fantasy

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• 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

  Love, Unique, People

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