Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

He didn’t know anyone could cry like that. A wind was coming from inside her.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Great
  • Important
  • Passion

• I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • God
  • Men
  • Service

• When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Work
  • Attention
  • Ideas

• This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Playing

• I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Past
  • Amazing
  • Moving

• The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • May
  • Fear
  • Environment

• I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • News
  • Excited
  • Entertainment

• I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Like
  • Old
  • Disney

• Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.

  

  Jack Black
  • Great
  • Face
  • Now

• Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Good
  • True
  • Animal

• It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Better
  • Gold

• I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Mother
  • Afraid
  • Married

• People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • Thinking
  • Vision
  • Mask

• Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Free

• It'll come off. If you can't get it off yourself, just take it to Miss Jody.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro

• Everyone has some kind of light inside them.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Light
  • Kind
  • Inside

• When the April wind wakes the call for the soil, I hold the plough as my only hold upon the earth, and, as I follow through the fresh and fragrant furrow, I am planted with every foot-step, growing, budding, blooming into a spirit of spring.

  

  Dallas Lore Sharp
  • Wind
  • Hold
  • Planted

• Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Ugly
  • Loser
  • Fearful

• He didn’t know anyone could cry like that. A wind was coming from inside her.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Wind
  • Cry
  • Inside