Top 100 Bender Quotes
#1. Tonight feels like a board game co-designed by M. C. Escher on a bender and Stephen King in a fever.
David Mitchell
#2. After 'An Inconvenient Truth' came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot - water, poverty, and so many, many more.
Lawrence Bender
#3. She looked over my shoulder once while I was texting, which was already annoying, and when I wrote lol she made a very clear point to me about how I was silent and not laughing out loud, not at all. I said it was just an expression, and that I was laughing out loud inside my own mind.
Aimee Bender
#4. I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
Aimee Bender
#5. Then he sat down at the table of a larger man, a man with tattoos but the old kind, before tattoos became dainty and about spiritual life. The man wore tattoos from the time when tattoos meant you liked to kick people around.
Aimee Bender
#6. I felt her come by later, as I was dozing off. Her standing, by my bed. The depth of shadow of a person felt behind closed eyelids.
Aimee Bender
#7. Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
Aimee Bender
#8. We are all, generally, symmetrical: ants, elephants, lions, fish, flowers, leaves. But she was a tree. No one expects a tree to be symmetrical at all.
Aimee Bender
#9. I wanted to bathe in plum juice, rediscover my body and adorn it in kiwi circles.
Aimee Bender
#10. With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
Aimee Bender
#11. And I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
Aimee Bender
#12. But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
Aimee Bender
#13. I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.
Aimee Bender
#14. We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.
Aimee Bender
#16. Simplicity hinges as much on cutting nonessential features as on adding helpful ones.
Walter Bender
#17. After years on a drunken bender, Americans are awakening to lies masked in patriotism and glory.
Chris Hedges
#18. My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
Aimee Bender
#19. He said, I always thought the woman I'd marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.
Aimee Bender
#20. I'm a man who got out, and moved on. I'm a fucking survivor. - Oliver
Melissa Bender
#21. Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife.
Hunter S. Thompson
#22. The core of my personality consists of many selves.
Hans Bender
#23. They'd been married for years, and he wanted her to give up the last thread of cover so she would stand before him nude and he could make love to her entire skin. Well, of course that made her head fall off. Of course.
Aimee Bender
#24. What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.
Lawrence Bender
#25. It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
Aimee Bender
#26. Sherrie would be there, and the last time I'd seen her at a social event she burst into tears when she saw me and ran out of the room. You're upset, I'd yelled after her, meanly.
Aimee Bender
#27. She could feel it brimming on her lips, that superstar smile, the bow shape, the teeth long and solid tombstones.
Aimee Bender
#28. It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things ...
Aimee Bender
#29. It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we'd read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
Aimee Bender
#30. While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
Aimee Bender
#31. It is these empty spaces you have to watch out for, as they flood up with feeling before you even realize what's happened.
Aimee Bender
#33. We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
Aimee Bender
#34. Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.
Aimee Bender
#35. Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.
Beryl Bender Birch
#36. It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
Aimee Bender
#37. Pain was no longer a mystery to him, and a man familiar with pain has entered a new kind of freedom.
Aimee Bender
#38. The address label wouldn't come off so I put the ripped electric bill back in its stack by the phone. On top of all the other bills, all the papers that ran the house invisibly
Aimee Bender
#39. Trying to solve the problem by creating more debt is analogous to trying to stop being an alcoholic by going on a bender down at the corner bar.
John L. Casti
#40. At lunch you order steamed vegetables because you're remembering that you have a heart too. You feel humbled by your heart, it works so hard. You want to thank it. You give your heart a little pat
Aimee Bender
#41. We write because something inside says we must and we can no longer ignore that voice.
Sheila Bender
#42. I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something.
Aimee Bender
#43. My sangha, what I seem to attract, are people who have been practicing a long time, they're teaching, they're more serious about their spiritual journey.
Beryl Bender Birch
#44. Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting - he's like a rock star unto himself!
Lawrence Bender
#47. You can just about always stand more 'n you think you can.
Texas Bix Bender
#48. Film is a very collaborative medium. If you're smart enough, you learn how to maintain your vision while drawing resourcefully from all the people around you.
Lawrence Bender
#49. She is walking around the living room naked and
Aimee Bender
#50. I love all the arts - so museums, theatre, music, walks near trees or by the ocean, time with people, psychological readings.
Aimee Bender
#51. Dad lost his job. Then he got a new job. Then he got his old job back and went back to it. They were all in the same building.
Aimee Bender
#52. This reminded him of Alvis Bender's contention that stories were like nations - Italy, a great epic poem, Britain, a thick novel, America, a brash motion picture in technicolor ...
Jess Walter
#53. Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
Hans Bender
#55. Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than one's roommate having a giant orgasm and then making an embarrassed sssh sound, realizing that maybe through her pleasure she'd heard the front door open and close.
Aimee Bender
#56. I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.
Lawrence Bender
#57. It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.
Aimee Bender
#58. A good pard is always close by when you're in a tight squeeze.
Dn't let
Texas Bix Bender
#59. Miracles come after a lot of hard work.
Sue Bender
#60. Every species embodies a solution to some environmental challenge, and some of these solutions are breathtaking in their elegance.
Linda Bender
#61. I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries.
Beryl Bender Birch
#62. I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism.
Aimee Bender
#63. Ponytail girl leaned over and she and the tall boy kissed and it was carcinogen gums and magical.
Aimee Bender
#64. A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
Morris Bender
#65. But the rest of the evening is nothing but the trembling edges of something I am so tired of feeling and I do not want to feel anymore.
Aimee Bender
#66. Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
Aimee Bender
#67. I related to his disillusionment. Thinking that he was going for this big dream. Then he kind of saw through it all at one point and went back home. Then he started a bender, which I can relate to of course.
Woody Harrelson
#68. There was love to be felt, and discovered, still.
Aimee Bender
#69. Something tells me you might soon be changin' your tune about that iron-bender. He ain't all he seems. Trust me, darlin'. You can do better.
Karen Witemeyer
#70. Being there was like having a good cry, the clearing of the air after weight has been held.
Aimee Bender
#71. [ ... ]when he closed his eyes, the torrent of longing waiting inside was so thick he thought he might drown in it.
Aimee Bender
#72. Never be too quick to criticize yourself. It's not fair to all of your friends and relatives, who are dying to do it for you.
Texas Bix Bender
#73. To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
Aimee Bender
#74. Honestly, when I had the idea to make 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and I was going out and raising the money, and I said, 'I want to make a movie about Al Gore's slide show, will you give me a million dollars?' People thought I was insane, looked at me cross-eyed.
Lawrence Bender
#75. I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
Aimee Bender
#76. God asks husbands to love their wives enough to die for them. He asks wives to love their husbands enough to live for them.
Betty S. Bender
#77. The experience of yoga is unspeakable. It's the experience of samadhi. It's the experience of connectedness, of oneness, boundlessness, merging with God consciousness ... even if it's just for an instant.
Beryl Bender Birch
#78. I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I think is important about fiction while knowing I myself have just failed to do that hours earlier at my computer - it's a good and humbling reminder.
Aimee Bender
#79. To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet.
Lawrence Bender
#80. I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
Aimee Bender
#81. When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.
Aimee Bender
#82. Tension is the greatest curse in sport. I've never had any tension. You give the best you have - you win or lose. What's the difference if you give all you've got to give?
Chief Bender
#83. Because we tend to equate intelligence with language
particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions
it is natural to conclude that animals are, on the whole, a lot less intelligent than we are.
Linda Bender
#84. In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and fifteen minutes of her stirring her tea, which she steeps with the kind of Zen patience that would make Buddhists sit up in envy and then breathe through their envy and then move past their envy.
Aimee Bender
#86. Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.
Lawrence Bender
#87. At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop.
Aimee Bender
#88. I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q ...
Aimee Bender
#89. I will never die, thought the cake to itself, in even simpler terms, as cakes did not have sophisticated use of language.
Aimee Bender
#90. It's easy to see things you're lookin' for. The trick is to see things you're not looking for.
Texas Bix Bender
#91. A gossip is someone who's the knife of the party.
Morris Bender
#92. Lots of media people ask me what do you think of yoga in the gyms, and what do you think about this article and what do you think about that, and how about it's so commercial now. I say, look, whatever gets people turned on to it.
Beryl Bender Birch
#93. As a kid, I often figured it was good to be patient to a fault.
Aimee Bender
#94. She's Beautiful."
[His] chest rose and fell a few times before he wiped a bloody hand across his mouth...
"She is, and she's going to taste divine.
M. Stratton
#96. Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard work and courage to get to know who you are and what you want.
Sue Bender
#97. I'd stopped waving to passengers in cars by then- I'd grown suspicious of people and all the complications of interior lives- so I sat and watched and rode and thought, and as soon as the bus doors opened, we all rolled out the doorand split apart like billiard balls.
Aimee Bender
#98. Grieving the loss of a loved one - whether human or animal - is not only permissible, it is essential.
Linda Bender
#99. Nothing ... They're from nothing,' he said. 'They came in the book ... I found the book and inside were these flowers ... They were in the book when I bought it ... I bought it used ... Because they meant something.
'To someone else.'
'To someone.
Aimee Bender
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