Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
We were in the middle of a drought, and it hadn’t rained for months and months and months. And that’s when I knew that your father was like the rain. He was a miracle.Benjamin Alire Saenz
Quotes to Explore
-
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
Joanne Rowling -
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
Macaulay Culkin -
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
Imogen Cunningham -
They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
Oscar Robertson -
I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
J. R. Martinez -
I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.
L'Wren Scott
-
Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.
Hanneli Mustaparta -
According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
Ferdinand Mount -
Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.
Achille Maramotti -
I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.
Flip Wilson -
Polychain manages a hedge fund that invests exclusively in digital assets. We invest exclusively in protocols, not companies, and we do this by investing in things made scarce through the blockchain.
Olaf Carlson-Wee -
When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'
Raina Telgemeier
-
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
Edmund Burke -
The casual is not Enough. The freshness of transformation isThe freshness of a world. It is our own, It is ourselves, the freshness of ourselves, And that necessity and that presentationAre rubbings of a glass in which we peer.
Wallace Stevens -
For me, what makes a dope concept is it's a fresh idea, something that I've never heard before.
Jason Boyd -
Is the human race a universal constructor?
David Deutsch -
It's a mixed feeling when everything you've ever wanted in making films is coming true, and yet you feel scared because it's happening all at once. Suddenly you're in rooms with people you've looked up to for years, the Judi Denches. You wonder if you're good, if you have what it takes.
Alicia Vikander -
A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance.
Mark Kurlansky
-
Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.
Emily V. Gordon -
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don't think of original ideas, and they don't bring much culture into their products.
Steve Jobs -
My father taught me how to hunt.
John David Washington -
Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that's comparable to the size of our solar system.
Andrea M. Ghez -
I just am really bad at making new friends - especially in the music industry, because they're not really real friends; they're just music industry friends.
Bibi Bourelly -
We were in the middle of a drought, and it hadn’t rained for months and months and months. And that’s when I knew that your father was like the rain. He was a miracle.
Benjamin Alire Saenz