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.

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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
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Religion

• 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
  • People
  • God
  • Country

• The words I overuse are all adverbs.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Words

• My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Music
  • Think
  • Written

• To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• 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

• A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

  

  Ingrid Bergman
  • Nature
  • Words
  • Kiss

• 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
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Words

• 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
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Soul

• 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
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• 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
  • Men
  • Words
  • Picture

• Words are good servants but bad masters.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Words

• '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
  • May
  • Words
  • Friend

• 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
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Words

• 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
  • World
  • Why
  • Words

• Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

  

  Bodhidharma
  • Words

• Here are the facts: my folks grew up so poor that, in the words of Redd Foxx, there were twenty o's between the p and r.

  

  Kevin Young
  • Up
  • Words

• Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

  

  Alan Colmes
  • Words

• The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think that this nation is being asked put this mass slaughter behind them.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu

• We have to play better. If we think we're a good defense, we better start showing it. We didn't make plays when we had to. We gave up a couple of big plays. We had a chance to win the game. We were in the game the whole time and found a way to lose at the end.

  

  Brian Urlacher
  • Chance
  • Win
  • Defense

• For me, managing my energy means slowing myself down before the big event. I slow down the racing thoughts in my mind. I concentrate on and slow down my breathing. I listen to and steady my heart rate.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Energy

• Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: 'Make me young, make me young, make me young!'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Father

• 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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