Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

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

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• 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

• A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

  

  James Broughton
  • Life

• We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Future
  • Poor
  • Invest

• Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, "Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it."

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • God
  • Job

• In reference to Playstation Football Here's an idea! Why don't they make a button that says frickin' 'pass'!

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Why
  • Football

• The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this earth. It's not going be, "It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl." But, really and truly what you're going to leave this earth is the influence on others.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Important
  • Art
  • Things

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

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • God
  • Prayer