Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo -
The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
Orlando Bloom -
I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
Walter Dean Myers -
I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.
Uma Thurman -
I was diagnosed as mentally retarded as late as the fourth grade.
Dannel Malloy -
The United Nations would probably have to rest on two pillars: one constituted by an assembly of equal executive representatives of individual countries, resembling the present plenary, and the other consisting of a group elected directly by the globe's population in which the number of delegates representing individual nations would, thus, roughly correspond to the size of the nations.
Vaclav Havel
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Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
Ted Dekker -
Even if sheep could talk, they'd never ask questions.
Andrew Vachss -
When you lose, there is a whole bunch of room for negativity and I don't feed into this stuff and I do not do any talking. I don't run my mouth.
Allen Iverson -
The Howard Stern Show is a big hit because it entertains dumb and smart people at the same time for different reasons.
Artie Lange -
I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.
Fats Domino -
Liberia has to take primary responsibility for its own reform agenda. But our resources are limited. We have to attract the private sector to get jobs to our people that will enable us to raise the government revenue, but to do that we have to build infrastructure. It's a very complex problem of development we are facing here.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.
William Hazlitt -
The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.
Helen Keller -
The ball is in the court of the two principals. There is basically four options they can take a look at.
B. R. Hayden -
The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality.
Hannah Arendt -
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.
Albert Camus -
Casting is sort of like looking at paintings. You don't know what you'll like, but you recognize it when you see it.
Steven Bochco