Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food—they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. “My brother is in prison.” Those words tasted bitter.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

• Words
• Food
• Prison
• Mouth

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• My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Food
  • Kitchen

• Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Words
  • English

• No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Food
  • Ship

• I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Up
  • Food
  • Respect

• Years down the line, I became a food stylist.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Food
  • Years
  • Down

• The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Soul
  • Words
  • Talk

• It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • People
  • Words
  • Change

• Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • People
  • Good
  • Man

• I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Words

• Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Food
  • City

• Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Imagination

• Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Words
  • Poetry
  • Lyrics

• The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Eye
  • Prison
  • Brotherhood

• Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Words
  • Forever

• With words woven into almost every detail of his life, it seems amazing that Mr. Mets' thinking on the subject of language should be so limited.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Words

• While I was held prisoner, sweet inspiration educated me and laws were imparted to me in a speech which had no words...

  

  Taliesin
  • Words
  • Inspiration
  • Sweet

• If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt, that atheists are as plentiful as blackberries.

  

  Leslie Stephen
  • People
  • God
  • Mind

• I know the food groups that I like to have and are good for me and those that I have to stay away from. And so, I don't need to know exactly what I'm going to eat, but I take my insulin probably 20 minutes before I'm going to sit down.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Good
  • Food

• We're going to pick up whatever is left of him when it is over. I just hope the Finnish team will supply the elastic bands (used to treat groin injuries) when he comes back.

  

  Bob Hartley
  • Team
  • Bands
  • Injuries

• I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place.

  

  Martina McBride
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Accept
  • States

• Most people I've told about this think it's great. They really want to latch on to a good cause, ... But some of them say, 'Why do you have to hike the Grand Canyon ?'

  

  John Young
  • People
  • Good
  • Grand

• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • War
  • Better

• I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food—they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. “My brother is in prison.” Those words tasted bitter.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Words
  • Food
  • Prison