Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

As far as I was concerned, the sun could have melted the blue right off the sky. Then the sky could be as miserable as I was.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Home

• I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Right
  • Coffee
  • Ingredients

• I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'

  

  Dan Colen
  • Kind
  • Right
  • Try

• As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Sense

• I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Right

• Women would rather be right than reasonable.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Women
  • Right
  • Rather

• What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Right

• Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Know
  • Me
  • Movies

• Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology. But to get there, you have to actually invest in R&D. And often that means you have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Powerful

• I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Right

• I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Blessed

• Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Always
  • Right
  • Still

• Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Right
  • Nation
  • Herself

• Right after college, I got really into St. Vincent. She just is so cool and out there. I think that's super-inspiring. And tone and mood-wise, I just love Patsy Cline and Ray Charles.

  

  Cam
  • Think
  • Cool
  • Wise

• I've never in my life bought a big piece of jewelry - like, 'I'm gonna get myself a big piece of jewelry!' Songwriters' lives are unstable and up and down. Even though mine has sort of has followed more of a going toward the sky trajectory.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Myself

• I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Kind
  • Right
  • Build

• I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Good
  • Me
  • Right

• Never could I tell, try as I might, what it actually was that I saw; nor could the still face tell, for although it must have seen more than I did, it will never speak again. But always I shall guard against the mocking and insatiate Hypnos, lord of sleep, against the night sky, and against the mad ambitions of knowledge and philosophy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Night
  • Knowledge
  • Sleep

• It was hard to have her here, because she was used to an independent life, and we were, too, but it was the right thing to do.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Life
  • She
  • Independent

• During the Vietnam War era people were concerned about what was going on economically in their lives, and film studios were worried about what was going on with the box office

  

  Neil Meron
  • People
  • War
  • Concerned

• As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.

  

  Ann Zwinger
  • Sky
  • Stars
  • Dawn

• Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Courage

• As far as I was concerned, the sun could have melted the blue right off the sky. Then the sky could be as miserable as I was.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Right
  • Sky
  • Concerned