Ben Lerner Quotes
When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me.
Ben Lerner
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A man of abilities and character, of any sect whatever, may be admitted to any office of public trust under the United States.
Edmund Randolph
I've taken salsa classes. I love dancing and I love to karaoke. So I bought a microphone with some tapes and my son and I karaoke. I know the entire 'Dora the Explorer' soundtrack.
Sherri Shepherd
He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him
Cyril of Alexandria
Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible.
Etgar Keret
Just to be able to make money doing what you love - you can't ask for anything more.
Jenny Mollen
Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
Albert Einstein
William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you're writing? They're no good.”
Eliot Weinberger
At the fourth flight Lila did something unexpected. She stopped to wait for me, and when I reached her she gave me her hand. This gesture changed everything between us forever.
Elena Ferrante
Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.
Elisabeth Elliot
When she reached me she asked gently if I were O.K., what was bothering me. Fine, nothing, I said, but in a way I hoped confirmed incommunicable depths had opened up inside me.
Ben Lerner
