Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
When I looked through the telescope, Dante began explaining what I was looking at. I didn’t hear a word. Something happened inside me as I looked out into the vast universe. Through that telescope, the world was closer and larger than I’d ever imagined. And it was all so beautiful and overwhelming and—I don’t know—it made me aware that there was something inside of me that mattered.Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
Vince Lombardi -
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson -
As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
Vanessa Bayer -
You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
Harold Prince -
I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
Bas Rutten -
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
Nancy Gibbs -
If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
Caitlyn Jenner -
I am very shy with people I don't know.
Ingmar Bergman -
To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
Queen Latifah -
Staying fit is all about trying to find enjoyment in something physical, because that's the only way you're gonna get results.
Kaley Cuoco -
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
D. H. Lawrence
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'Is there anyone in Chasm City she hasn’t deceived?''Possibly, somewhere, but only as an extreme theoretical possibility.'
Alastair Reynolds -
If I could visit dead authors, I'd head right over to E. B. White, though I'm so in awe of him I'd probably just sit at his feet and weep. He's the master of clarity, of understated humor, of palatable political conviction.
Elizabeth Berg -
As the years go by, you get to know yourself better and learn what works for you.
Marie Helvin -
The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was going to go to med school. My father's dream was that all of his kids become doctors. I realized in school I didn't like it. When he died, it was like a wake-up call. Life is too short to do something you don't want to do.
Adepero Oduye -
A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.
Loretta Young -
I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.
James Dyson
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Openness is all, she thought. Truth was its own reward.
Dave Eggers -
They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat. "Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper. "Make Harry get it." "Get the mail, Harry." "Make Dudley get it." "Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.
Joanne Rowling -
'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
E. T. Bell -
We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.
Gary Zukav -
Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
Patrick Ness -
When I looked through the telescope, Dante began explaining what I was looking at. I didn’t hear a word. Something happened inside me as I looked out into the vast universe. Through that telescope, the world was closer and larger than I’d ever imagined. And it was all so beautiful and overwhelming and—I don’t know—it made me aware that there was something inside of me that mattered.
Benjamin Alire Saenz