Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

• God
• Prayer

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Twitter

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • People
  • World
  • Judge

• The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • People
  • Music
  • Respect

• I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Love
  • Morning
  • Coffee

• You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Know
  • Poetry
  • Learn

• I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Life
  • Love
  • Fall

• It's pretty easy to tell who's garbage and who's not right away, and most people suck, to be honest, or they're just really wrapped up in what's going on with themselves.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• Nostalgia is a powerful drug. Under its influence, ordinary songs take on dimensions and powers, like emotional superheroes.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Powerful
  • Emotional
  • Influence

• There was nothing so antipodal to his nature as this man's cold, unimaginative sagacity, by contact with which everything was converted into a dream except the densest matter of the physical world.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Nature
  • Dream

• Indoors or out, no one relaxesIn March, that month of wind and taxes,The wind will presently disappear,The taxes last us all the year.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Wind
  • March

• Why don't you sit right down and stay awhile? We like the same things and I like your style Its not a secret; why do you keep it? I'm just sitting on the shelf

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Why
  • Style

• A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Career
  • Single
  • Independent

• Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Positive

• Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • People

• My mom would walk through a fire pit for me, and I'd do the same for her.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Mom
  • Fire

• Our nation's infrastructure needs are tremendous, and they're growing.

  

  Bill Lipinski
  • Growing

• In Canada, you can't even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or even a grizzly bear. Then again, the grizzlies don't beat anyone here in Vancouver; oh, it's true, it's true.

  

  Kurt Angle
  • True

• We came up short on offense and that's on me.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Up
  • Tactics

• I feel like... I don't have a wife, I don't have a kids, but... I see rappers and I'm like, I know that's fake. I know how much you make, this is all bullshit. But people are buying into it, and you shouldn't have that power. I'm legit trying to make honest moves so that all of us can grow. I want to make a show where my sister can work on and become a producer because she can't get in, no one's leting her. I want to make things where people can actually grow. A place where people can actually be honest.

  

  Donald Glover
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Change

• I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kids
  • Singing
  • Annoying

• If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wishes
  • Oppression
  • Hashish

• And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • God
  • Prayer