Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.
Quotes to Explore
-
We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
-
We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.
-
We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
-
Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
-
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
-
I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.
-
This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
-
Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
-
I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
-
I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
-
Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
-
I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
-
If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
-
Britain's passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times - both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine.
-
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
-
We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
-
He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
-
The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.
-
I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
-
I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child.
-
When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.
-
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
-
I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.
