Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

She was staring at a picture of me and Sam when we were seven. No front teeth. We were standing in the front yard. It was summer and the leaves of her mulberry tree were behind us. The caption read: She was always my sister.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• I'm very content.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Very
  • Content

• All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Know
  • Nothing
  • Touch

• I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Me
  • Face
  • Camera

• Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Imagination

• Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Find

• What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Today
  • Day
  • Crazy

• I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Future
  • Language
  • Moon

• Univision's close-to-50-year relationship with Hispanics makes us one of the leading media brands in this country and the gateway to connect with this consumer.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Country
  • Relationship
  • Media

• There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Time
  • Men
  • Law

• In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Policy
  • Views
  • Spectrum

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Fame

• Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Army
  • Sides
  • Terrorism

• I'm not invited to any exciting parties and my life hasn't really changed.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Really

• Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

  

  Aaron Hill
  • Courage
  • Numbers
  • Lion

• So ist vielmehr der Fall, daß das Volk, insosern mit diesem Worte ein besonderer Theil der Mitglieder eines Staats bezeichnet ist, den Theil ausdrückt, der nicht weiß was er will.1

  

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
  • Fall

• If the German nation wants to end a state of affairs that threatens its extermination in Europe, it must not fall into the error of the pre-War period and make enemies of God and the world; it must recognize the most dangerous enemy and strike at him with all its concentrated power. And if this victory is obtained through sacrifices elsewhere, the coming generations of our people will not condemn us.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Nation
  • German
  • Europe

• I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Work
  • Picture
  • Movies

• I like the men to wear the pants. I don't want to wear the pants. I like men who know what they want, know what they're doing, make their own decisions... As much as I like to be the controller, it's not in my best interest.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Men
  • Best
  • Decisions

• She was staring at a picture of me and Sam when we were seven. No front teeth. We were standing in the front yard. It was summer and the leaves of her mulberry tree were behind us. The caption read: She was always my sister.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Picture
  • Summer
  • Sister