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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• In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Today
  • Society
  • Stop

• 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 love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Children
  • Aim
  • Consistency

• 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

• And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Now

• 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

• I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

  

  Bobby Seale
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Police

• Nice " Shane said. "I'm warming up to this bloodsucking thing Mikey." "No you're not." "Okay no I'm not but right now let's pretend I am.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Pretend

• People are terrible. They do terrible things to each other, they hurt each other, they lie, they're vain, they're shallow, they're violent ... but they're all we have.

  

  Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Lying

• Even years later traumatized people often have enormous difficulty telling other people what has happened to them. Their bodies reexperience terror, rage, and helplessness, as well as the impulse to fight or flee, but these feelings are almost impossible to articulate. Trauma by nature drives us to the edge of comprehension, cutting us off from language based on common experience or an imaginable past.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Language
  • Fight
  • Terror

• 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