Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughters were mysteries. They lived in rooms you had long since abandoned and could not, did not, ever want to reenter.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

  

  Becky G
  • Writing
  • Start
  • Guitar

• Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Fall
  • Hurt
  • Bass

• Suicide is kinda dumb to me. If I wanna kill myself I will. It's not hard to die, I could do it like right now. But why is everybody pretending like everything's ok, Everything's not ok. We are more connected than we've ever been, But I feel more alone than I've ever been.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Why
  • Die
  • Alone

• To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.

  

  Weegee
  • Photographer
  • Hot
  • Ems

• There has to be a consensus and this is a report, a set of circumstances, that the international community simply cannot ignore.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Community
  • Circumstances
  • Ignore

• I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Live
  • Courage
  • Potential

• You just do you like when you're doing any other song. It's nothing different. Some people are like "How's it like working with Kendrick Lamar?" and really, it's like working with anyone else that I work with.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Country
  • United States
  • Interests

• This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Morning
  • Laughing
  • Underwear

• Salesforce.com and other CRM solutions would be really useful if they actually had customer data stored. But they only have prospects. There's no way to make a prospect into a customer unless you tie together ERP and CRM.

  

  Zach Nelson
  • Solutions
  • Customer
  • Salesforce

• A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Stop
  • Minute
  • Quick

• ...she was still water in his hands. He didn't know how to hold on.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Water
  • Hands
  • Hold

• Tyrannical fathers, oppressed daughters, and repugnant suitors are scattered throughout English history.

  

  Nancy Atherton
  • Fathers
  • Daughters
  • English History

• Mysteries are due to secrecy.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Mysteries
  • Secrecy

• There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Lifetime
  • Mysteries
  • Plain

• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Imagination
  • Impossible
  • Limits

• Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughters were mysteries. They lived in rooms you had long since abandoned and could not, did not, ever want to reenter.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Daughters
  • Mysteries
  • Honeysuckles