Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

That smell—cigarette—it always made me think of him. He smoked his cigarette. I drove. I didn’t mind the silence and the desert and the cloudless sky. What did words matter to a desert?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

• Silence
• Desert
• Cigarette

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• A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Things

• I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Father
  • House

• As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Good
  • Entrepreneur
  • News

• I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Hope
  • Reason
  • Right

• I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Wife
  • Foundation

• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Rights

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Reality
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• At least I can say that I'm honest.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Honest
  • Say
  • I Can

• Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Home
  • Never
  • Vacation

• All you've got to do is turn up and have a few facial tics and be a lunatic and throw someone around the room or blow their brains out and people think it's good acting.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I have no disciple. I am the servant of the servant of Rama.

  

  Ramakrishna

• I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Powerful

• Excess is excrement.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• I like sex. I've had feedback but men will feed you back anything, won't they?

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Men
  • Sex

• When we started, there were KRAFTWERK and TANGERINE DREAM, and both bands also became very very strong internationally but in a different area, in a different field. They were doing, like, experimental kind of music, and KRAFTWERK were amazing, while we played just traditional rock.

  

  Klaus Meine Scorpions
  • Music
  • Different
  • Dream

• I love 'Wowee Zowee.' That was the first Pavement record I bought.

  

  Jenny Lewis

• Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Trying
  • Magic

• Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

  

  Kelly Wearstler
  • Book

• First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

  

  Saint Basil
  • World
  • Food
  • Silence

• Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Real
  • Community
  • Struggle

• Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Silence

• One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Think
  • Know
  • Hero

• That smell—cigarette—it always made me think of him. He smoked his cigarette. I drove. I didn’t mind the silence and the desert and the cloudless sky. What did words matter to a desert?

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Silence
  • Desert
  • Cigarette