Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Bullshit, Ari. You have the harder rule to follow? Buffalo shit. Coyote shit. All you have to do is be loyal to the most brilliant guy you've ever met—which is like walking barefoot through the park. I, on the other hand, have to refrain from kissing the greatest guy in the universe—which is like walking barefoot on hot coals.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

• Universe
• Rule
• Kissing
• Coals

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• As you grow older, your whole life becomes very rich, multifaceted.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Rich
  • Grow

• I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Work
  • Force
  • Directors

• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Funny

• To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Focus
  • Ideas
  • Person

• Do you know that people fall in love in war and go to school and go to factories and hospitals and get divorced and go dancing and go playing and live life?

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Acting
  • My Life

• This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Stop
  • Election
  • Taxes

• I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Teacher

• It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Believe
  • Memories

• A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • Family
  • Interesting

• I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed;I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Great
  • Nature

• 'In innocence there is no strength against evil,' said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. 'But there is strength in it for good.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Good
  • Evil

• A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Family
  • Together

• ‘Do you know,’ said a thoughtful Bean, ‘I’ll bet that if all the girls Freddie Widgeon has loved were placed end to end-not that I suppose one could do it-they would reach half-way down Piccadilly.’‘Further than that,’ said the Egg. ‘Some of them were pretty tall.’

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Pretty
  • Thoughtful

• 'Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Death
  • Rest
  • Dark

• Change is one thing, progress is another.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Progress

• The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

  

  Chanakya
  • Life
  • Dog

• There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Up
  • Country
  • Language

• I did a game at Atari Research called 'Excalibur' about the Arthurian legends. At the time, it was very, very complicated, very involved and so forth and actually still looks better than some of the modern games in terms of its richness and involvement.

  

  Chris Crawford
  • Time
  • Game

• We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Death
  • Reality
  • Lost

• It makes me sad, the way human beings talk smack. It's why I don't like irony. People are too gleeful to put some teeth into something.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Why
  • Way

• Bullshit, Ari. You have the harder rule to follow? Buffalo shit. Coyote shit. All you have to do is be loyal to the most brilliant guy you've ever met—which is like walking barefoot through the park. I, on the other hand, have to refrain from kissing the greatest guy in the universe—which is like walking barefoot on hot coals.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Universe
  • Rule
  • Kissing