Aimee Bender Quotes

Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

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• I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Men
  • Society
  • Military

• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Artist
  • Imagine
  • Musicians

• It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Want
  • Trust
  • Ridiculous

• I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

  

  Kat Graham
  • World
  • Different
  • Own

• As for a fantasy life, working women are more likely to fantasize about finding the perfect child care provider who she can both trust and afford. She might also fantasize that tonight her husband will both shop for and cook dinner.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Unique
  • Poverty
  • Youth

• Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.

  

  Irving Azoff
  • Music
  • Marketing
  • Tool

• You can see designers and fashion people bringing in older girls to do their shows - I'm not even afraid to say 'older.'

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • You
  • Fashion

• Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• 'Veep' is definitely one of my favorite TV shows, and not because I'm in it. It's just such a great show, and the fact that I'm on it is crazy to me because I love it so much.

  

  Randall Park
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Favorite

• Precognition or self-deception?

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Deception

• There are four different theories concerning Divine Providence; they are all ancient, known from the time of the Prophets, when the true law was revealed to enlighten these dark regions.

  

  Maimonides
  • Time
  • Different
  • True

• Speaking our language, you will understand us-and if you can think as another man thinks, you cannot dislike him.

  

  Jack Vance

• After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Night

• The so-called 'peace' is an interval between wars.

  

  Lu Xun
  • Peace

• Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

  

  Don Meredith

• Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system.

  

  Richard Lamm
  • Pressure
  • Environmental
  • Dramatic

• The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

  

  David Hilbert
  • Question

• We are living in a culture where we are so led by the visual, and what is promoted in the media, that the attitude becomes, 'I don't have to go through normalcy in life - I can look for exemptions. And I expect them, and when I look for them and they are not there, I am angry.'

  

  Ben Harney
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Attitude

• It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Together
  • Natural
  • Results

• Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.

  

  Aimee Bender