Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

That was the way it was in the desert, the rain poured down then stopped. Just like that.

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• I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Doing
  • Figure
  • Documentary

• In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Late

• So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Government

• I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Style
  • Successful

• I think that's a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Power
  • Think
  • Questions

• What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Day
  • Musicians

• The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Science
  • Church
  • Pretend

• Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Nature
  • Peace
  • Attention

• When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Right

• I play guitar, the ukulele and the piano. I grew up on a mountain in Tennessee, and we had 'The Mountain Opry,' where anyone could just get up on stage to perform. It was just about the soul and heart of music. My upbringing was less about being great and more about just doing what you love. It was always for joy.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Mum asks why I am so often cast in adulterous roles. I think it must be because I am fairly flirty.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Roles
  • Flirty
  • Adulterous

• I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Live
  • Future
  • Past

• Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Nice
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• I think that living in Indonesia also reminded me how big the world is, you know, I've... Indonesia such a big country, such a diverse country and so many different people there and it reminded me that we have to have a broad view of the world and recognize that we all are interconnected and that's very important...

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• 'Any road', said Carlyle, 'even this road to Entepfuhl, will take you to the end of the world'. But the Entepfuhl road, if taken in its entirety, and to the end, goes back to Entepfuhl; so Entepfuhl, where we already were, is that very end of the world we were seeking.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World
  • Taken
  • Road

• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Actually, I was having dinner with Michael (Stipe, of R.E.M.) when our second album went platinum, which up until that point was the highest success we'd ever had. And he turned to me during dinner and said, 'Welcome to the deep waters, kid.' I'll never forget that.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Up
  • Success
  • Deep

• Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.

  

  Margaret Atwood

• I think one of the things that people take for granted when they watch a film is the actors have to exhibit an extraordinary amount of force to block out the stuff that isn't a part of their reality. And when the audience sees it, they're seeing everything the actor isn't seeing.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • People
  • Reality

• 'Everything you say is boring and incomprehensible,' she said, 'but that alone doesn't make it true.'

  

  Franz Kafka
  • She
  • True
  • Alone

• During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Money
  • Single
  • Evil

• I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as "useless" as the theory of numbers.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Great
  • Real
  • Present

• All right, have it your way - you heard a seal bark!

  

  James Thurber

• That was the way it was in the desert, the rain poured down then stopped. Just like that.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Rain
  • Desert
  • Stopped