Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Man
  • Respect

• Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sure
  • Excellent
  • Anybody

• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Important
  • Future
  • Lost

• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Girl

• I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Together
  • House
  • Lost

• Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Family
  • Food

• I believe it is impossible to be sure of anything.

  

  Han Fei
  • Believe
  • Impossible
  • Sure

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Mind
  • Lost
  • Things

• One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

  

  Valerie June
  • Up
  • School
  • Lost

• I think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Think
  • Want
  • Lost

• I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Lost

• I'm in awe of any Olympic champion, for sure.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Champion
  • Sure
  • Awe

• Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Lost
  • Forgiveness
  • Sins

• I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Lost
  • Successful
  • Trials

• When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Trust

• New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • World
  • Lost
  • New York

• A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.

  

  Candice Olson
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Style

• I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • World
  • Myself
  • Find

• So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it's the inverse, because we get to be the centre of attention, looked up and down, dressed up for premieres all the time. The pull isn't quite as great.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Taken

• I've been taking my time now between projects looking for stuff that has a little bit more substance, that isn't surface. Some of the films that I've done in the past really were surface.

  

  Christian Slater
  • Time
  • Done
  • Past

• We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Lost
  • Sure