Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds. Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• Universe
• Secrets
• Instincts

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• People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Girl
  • Myself

• If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Important
  • Moments
  • Look

• I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Doing
  • Will
  • Shall

• I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • You
  • Rich
  • Chocolate

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Washington
  • Outside

• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Revolution
  • Dictatorship

• Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.

  

  Vanity
  • Money
  • Joke
  • Vanity

• In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Time
  • New
  • New York

• I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • People
  • Done
  • Mother

• There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Up
  • Young
  • Soccer

• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Period

• Each high point in the history of human civilisation has taken place where the conditions were ripe and has borrowed and built on the achievements of other cultures whose golden age may have passed.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • May
  • History
  • High

• Now get off my dick, dick's too short of a word for my dick, get off my antidisestablishmentarianism you prick.

  

  Eminem
  • Word
  • Get
  • Prick

• Matter and all else that is in the physical world have been reduced to a shadowy symbolism.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • World

• This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

  

  David Neeleman
  • Business
  • Control
  • Hand

• I got a strong spirit that I rely on and go into. It allows me to prepare and drive forward.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Strong

• You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.

  

  Jimmy Dean

• I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Time
  • Career

• I invested. I wanted to cushion the future. I'm a financial success!

  

  Joanna Kerns
  • Future
  • Success
  • Financial

• Spend 5 minutes at the beginning of each day remembering we all want the same things (to be happy and be loved) and we are all connected to one another.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Beginning

• I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know, that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Thinking
  • Pain
  • inspirational

• I think penguins are cute.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Cute

• I'm kind of a complainer, but not about getting old. I complain about, you know, something that can be fixed.

  

  Martha Stewart

• One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds. Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Pain
  • Universe
  • Secrets