Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Dad read the sports page. My theory was that he kept up with the sports world in order to be able to have a decent conversation with his brothers—​that was the way he loved them.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Support
  • Needs
  • Banks

• My eye is ever on those who love me.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Love
  • Me
  • Eye

• It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Throughout the day, I'll make a lot of green smoothies or salads, and then when I travel, I try my hardest to just keep up the regime. It's not always easy, but I do my best.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Up
  • Day
  • Best

• Through the ages, from the beginning of time, I'm certain man has covered woman's face with masks. They are, however, his masks, not hers.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Time
  • Man
  • Beginning

• People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Violence
  • Ask
  • Fair

• Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Driving

• That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Law
  • Grandmother
  • Fame

• I feel even old people can do a nice love story, but here we don't make that kind of films. In the West, such films are being made and they make a nice romance, which is more like compassion.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Love
  • Nice

• The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • America
  • Hate

• Before I can finish one song, another is knocking on my door in my head.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Song
  • Door
  • Finish

• Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • Speak
  • Discipline

• I'd just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Small
  • Serious
  • Problems

• I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Trying
  • School
  • Help

• Patience is nobler motion than any deed.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
  • Patience
  • Deeds

• The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Way
  • Persons
  • Trustworthy

• The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Conversation
  • Remembered

• I was so uncomfortable at a party recently when the conversation droned on about women who are constantly getting married. I was on the edge of my chair, close to squirming in embarrassment because I myself was guilty of four husbands. I finally leaned forward and squeaked, 'But one died!

  

  Bette Davis
  • Guilty
  • Conversation
  • Husbands

• I'd probably get a much quicker and better result if I went to a really great guitar player for a certain style of guitar that I have a problem doing. But there is a challenge in figuring out if I can do that myself.

  

  Klayton Albert Celldwelle
  • Problem
  • Style
  • Player

• Dad read the sports page. My theory was that he kept up with the sports world in order to be able to have a decent conversation with his brothers—​that was the way he loved them.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Conversation
  • Brothers
  • Sports Page