Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

The world did have too many words. The sound of the rain was all we needed.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Political
  • Me
  • Sound

• Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Up
  • Words
  • Way

• The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Good
  • Words
  • Day

• If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Words
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Way
  • Sound

• I don't rate Heat fans like I rate Knicks fans. We are true basketball fans. No matter what - rain, sleet or snow, or even if we don't make it to the playoffs for 10 years - the Garden stands are still full.

  

  Fat Joe
  • True
  • Basketball
  • Garden

• It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Sound
  • Determined
  • Rebellion

• The rain begins with a single drop.

  

  Manal al-Sharif
  • Single
  • Rain
  • Drop

• I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Sound

• There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Words

• Where words fail, music speaks.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Music
  • Words
  • Where

• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Words
  • Slavery

• The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Important
  • Words
  • Goodbye

• Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • May
  • Words
  • Wisdom

• The Greeks understood the mysterious power of the underside of things. They are the ones who gave us one of the most beautiful words in our language, the word enthusiasm. - Εν Θεος - A God within.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • God
  • Power
  • Words

• I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.

  

  Mirriam Johnson
  • Words
  • Missing

• There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.

  

  Jared Padalecki
  • Time
  • Words
  • Baby

• I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.

  

  Chip Kidd
  • Music
  • Different
  • Book

• Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Important
  • Rain
  • Weather

• And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

  

  Andrea Martin
  • Done
  • Challenge

• It seems every year, people make the resolution to exercise and lose weight and get in shape.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Exercise
  • Year

• Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Prayer
  • Breaths
  • Inwards

• The world did have too many words. The sound of the rain was all we needed.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Words
  • Sound
  • Rain