Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
She stores so many of his words in her head that she feels as if she has become nothing more than a book he has written.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.
Origen
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What people love about Santorum is he is who is he. He speaks his words. He loves God. He loves his country, and he loves gays.
Foster Friess
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The words I overuse are all adverbs.
Sam Shepard
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My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
Dan Fogelberg
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
Edith Piaf
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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
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
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The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
Gary Wolf
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These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.
Felix Mendelssohn
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You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.
L. Ron Hubbard
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde
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They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.
Jim Morrison
The Doors
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Words are good servants but bad masters.
Aldous Huxley
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'Wal'r, my boy,' replied the Captain, 'in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of.'
Charles Dickens
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Poetry is a voicing, a calling forth, words waiting to be vocalized.
Edward Hirsch
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Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'
Chris Hayes
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Springsteen's 'Thunder Road' and Carole King's 'It's Too Late' are examples of why I am a singer/songwriter. I practice these songs every day. The melodies are timeless in the rock world, the lyrics are words that I need to say, and they need to be heard again.
Alice Ripley
