Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I’ll always remember that look on your face. You saw me. You’ve always seen me. And I think that’s all that anyone wants. That’s why Fito loves coming over here. He’s been invisible all his life. And all of a sudden he’s visible. Seeing someone. Really seeing someone. That’s love.Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero -
I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
Bahman Ghobadi -
I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
Pat Nixon -
I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
Maggie Grace -
I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.
Ian Gomez -
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler
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Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.
Sam Jaeger -
I love Somali foods like canjeero, a pancakelike bread; same for pizza, burgers, and sushi.
Halima Aden -
I work as if I were going to be the next person to need a respirator. I share in the benefits I bestow on others, and my work has enriched my life.
Forrest Bird -
Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.
Nathan Myhrvold -
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. Somerset Maugham -
I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.
Barbara Hale
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All art is propaganda, and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy. I do not care a damn for any art that is not used for propaganda.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
What could be better than working with people you love?
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I remember Nayim at Tottenham dived all over the place, and we used to say to him, 'What are you doing?' You do talk about it.
Gary Lineker -
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver Reed -
You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.
Oliver Hudson -
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
N. T. Wright
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
Rainbow Rowell -
Later in the evening when the sun is sinking low All day I been waiting for the whistle to blow Sitting in a teepee built right on the tracks Rolling them bones until the foreman comes back Pick up you belongings boys and scatter about We've got an off-schedule train comin' two miles out
Chuck Berry -
I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards.
C. S. Lewis -
I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was a musical. Parents love musicals. And I don't sing. It was driving me crazy. 'We're doing 'Macbeth.' 'Yes!' 'The musical!' And I was always in the chorus, because of course, in all the main parts, you had to be able to sing.
Charlie Cox -
'The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books: there's a certain preoccupation with looking at relationships from the outside, being shut out of human intimacy; and then there's patterning.
Eleanor Catton -
I’ll always remember that look on your face. You saw me. You’ve always seen me. And I think that’s all that anyone wants. That’s why Fito loves coming over here. He’s been invisible all his life. And all of a sudden he’s visible. Seeing someone. Really seeing someone. That’s love.
Benjamin Alire Saenz