Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is avai...
AIMEE BENDER I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more c...
AIMEE BENDER As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Cha...
AIMEE BENDER It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If ev...
AIMEE BENDER In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that ...
AIMEE BENDER At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a rol...
AIMEE BENDER My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
AIMEE BENDER No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss...
AIMEE BENDER I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writi...
AIMEE BENDER I loved my dish towel. This one was two-toned, and had, on one side, stitchings of fat purple roses ...
AIMEE BENDER When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nour...
AIMEE BENDER Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do ...
AIMEE BENDER I asked them: Does it hurt? And the scar people nodded, yes. But it felt somehow wonderful, they sai...
AIMEE BENDER I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be un...
AIMEE BENDER Generally, I think most of my writing tends to have some kind of magical element to it. That's t...
AIMEE BENDER I get a little myopic in the act of doing any writing. I think I'm not as interested or not as a...
AIMEE BENDER He made a good salary but he did not flaunt it. He’d been raised in Chicago proper by a Lithuanian...
AIMEE BENDER Does it work with sandwiches? he asked.
I didn't move. He handed it over. George was watching w...
AIMEE BENDER I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it s...
AIMEE BENDER and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair ...
AIMEE BENDER My favorite of all was still the place on Vermont, the French cafe, La Lyonnaise, that had given me ...
AIMEE BENDER We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up a...
AIMEE BENDER And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's be...
AIMEE BENDER I think teaching keeps me honest because if I'm up in front of a class talking about what I thin...
AIMEE BENDER For me, even in my first book, the pleasures of writing anything magical is that it has to be physic...
AIMEE BENDER One thing I don't want to feel is marketplace pressure, so I'm really glad I enjoy teaching ...
AIMEE BENDER I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing s...
AIMEE BENDER I love the idea of numerology, but I don't really believe in it. But I like thinking about what ...
AIMEE BENDER I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraugh...
AIMEE BENDER Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then i...
AIMEE BENDER I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightfor...
AIMEE BENDER Some creative writing programs seem evil, but my experience at Irvine was totally the opposite, wher...
AIMEE BENDER I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events t...
AIMEE BENDER For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me...
AIMEE BENDER I really like feeling connected to people and feeling like I have a good, solid sense of empathy.
AIMEE BENDER I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.
AIMEE BENDER Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb i...
AIMEE BENDER Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or ...
AIMEE BENDER There's a spectrum of those moments of connection and the moments we fail to connect, going from...
AIMEE BENDER It's unsettling to meet people who don't eat apples.
AIMEE BENDER George Malcolm: half white, half black, with messy tousled hair, rumpled and tugged between kind of ...
AIMEE BENDER Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it coul...
AIMEE BENDER In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and ...
AIMEE BENDER My mother had been baking more often in general, but she took plates of desserts to the carpentry st...
AIMEE BENDER That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold t...
AIMEE BENDER When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s...
KAREN BENDER You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You do...
KAREN BENDER At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop...
KAREN BENDER Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, fra...
KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&...
KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
KAREN BENDER Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.
KAREN BENDER Dylan threw strikes and that made for a good outing.
AARON BENDER It was a good game for us. We had a young pitcher on the mound and it was good to have him pitch aga...
AARON BENDER We sort of held on from there.
AARON BENDER He pitched well, but we didn't back him up with the defense he deserved.
AARON BENDER Everybody was hitting the ball that inning for us.
AARON BENDER We played well, but had too many errors. We had a five-out inning in the fifth.
AARON BENDER We're missing some of the veteran studs we had in lineup in years past, but we're looking forward to...
AARON BENDER This was by far the biggest win in 10 years. This was probably the most heart shown by any team I've...
AARON BENDER That's our whole season. We push every team to five games or three games. That's our season in a nut...
AARON BENDER Our offense is clicking real well right now.
AARON BENDER The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.
HANS BENDER Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you hav...
HANS BENDER The core of my personality consists of many selves.
HANS BENDER Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or ...
HANS BENDER You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil...
HANS BENDER Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on...
HANS BENDER PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are...
HANS BENDER Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
BETTY BENDER A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.
MORRIS BENDER I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in ...
LAWRENCE BENDER I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washingto...
LAWRENCE BENDER We are disappointed by this decision, but confident it will be overturned on appeal.
BRUCE BENDER Most patients don't follow daily treatment regimens no matter how good their doctor is. That disconn...
BRUCE BENDER There is no cap. I think it's very unfair for people to say the penalty is not enough. Five hundred ...
BRUCE BENDER It's not the old wrecking ball approach. It's being taken down literally brick by brick, and you're ...
BRUCE BENDER We're always looking for more workers.
CAL BENDER Without Experience Works, many don't know where they would be, or what they would be doing.
CAL BENDER We appreciate them taking our people and training them.
CAL BENDER A lot of the people we have on staff are between 55 and 90.
CAL BENDER Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.
HANS BENDER I am not married yet, but I think ultimately in a good marriage it is the relationship which is the ...
LAWRENCE BENDER The tribe was not all opposed to that.
JAY BENDER I would bet Charlotte -- but I've been saying Charlotte for a year now!.
ALAN BENDER ALPA has been slowly eroding in overall power.
ALAN BENDER With a win today and a win Sunday, we?re conference champions. Our whole season comes down to this w...
ANDREW BENDER Guys were slipping around a little bit, but we pretty much just played our game. You gotta fight thr...
ANDREW BENDER Change comes from dedicated, ordinary people, in the trenches, serving a cause greater than self.
LINDA BENDER We sometimes run one mile hard and one mile easy, and we do this for maybe four or five miles.
JOHN BENDER If it's a mugging, you might not want to give out the name of the victim in case the robber might se...
JAY BENDER Where we used to be able to give $5 voucher and that would suffice, it really doesn't anymore.
BETTY BENDER When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
BETTY BENDER The society of mankind is getting into irrationality. The fundamentals are not right.
HANS BENDER I think the biggest thing to scare Hong Kong was the devaluation in Taiwan,
JOHN BENDER Ultimately, behavioral targeting drives audience. Optimization is about driving performance. With be...
BRAD BENDER DART Adapt was founded on taking traditional marketing methods and principles and applying them onli...
BRAD BENDER Optimization solutions are emerging as an important area in the market. Ultimately, it's about how t...
BRAD BENDER Terrell Owens' book is one of the most candid ever written about professional football, and perhaps ...
BOB BENDER Now that we have proven that the black hole is at the centre of the disk of blue stars, the formatio...
RALF BENDER Future begins with FU
DEVIN BENDER Listening to your heart is not simple. Finding out who you are is not simple. It takes a lot of hard...
SUE BENDER If you get caught up in the past, you can't live for the present, or strive for the future
DEVIN BENDER You know, people have actually changed the way they think about nuclear weapons now, post-Cold War, ...
LAWRENCE BENDER I could see everyone waving on my way by every lap, ... but I tried to stay focused on hitting my ma...
JOHN BENDER [Fantasy] is a constructive aspect of the child's experimental exploration of reality, or his progre...
LAURETTA BENDER This winter we're going to build a couple of new cars and update our equipment by about nine years, ...
JOHN BENDER Stores are definitely getting smarter. They're mixing in more sophisticated music.
GEORGEANNE BENDER Christmas music works. When we hear the old songs it puts us in the mood. It's all about making peop...
GEORGEANNE BENDER He gives the impression of tranquility, yes. But there's a great depth of personality there, and a s...
GREG BENDER He gives the impression of tranquility, yes, ... But there's a great depth of personality there, and...
GREG BENDER Look, ... his work, as he has said many times, is creating peace. In reality, if people are kind, th...
GREG BENDER Usually, when he does these things, he'll give a talk, and then he and everyone else leaves and come...
GREG BENDER He has that effect even if you don't buy into any of it.
GREG BENDER We got no water release.
GARY BENDER I've always kept an eye on Pay By Touch for its leading position in the consumer biometric authentic...
GARY BENDER He's always coming up with new ideas and trying them out. I always enjoy working with people like th...
GARY BENDER They're facing southwest, toward the setting sun. It's almost like he's creating a solar panel.
GARY BENDER I'm going to suit up like I'm going to Iraq and fight this.
HARVEY BENDER The ruling is grotesque and political. What will be next? Will the Italians demand that pizza become...
HANS BENDER This ruling goes against all law ... It is scandalous,
HANS BENDER The tribe is obligated by the settlement agreement to pay a fee for its children who attend the scho...
JAY BENDER The tribe is entitled to credit for the school taxes it has paid on the off-reservation property, wh...
JAY BENDER I think a reading of the statute supports that it has to pay something for on-reservation children.
JAY BENDER Like Brett, I think America is a free-speech zone.
JAY BENDER I think it's a good development today.
JAY BENDER When I hear people like Wes Hayes say in the appeal that the tribe is trying to use video poker as l...
JAY BENDER The Supreme Court is going to have to hear this. I think if the plaintiffs are entitled to an accoun...
JAY BENDER I think the idea that it is a limited public forum is the one that would give them the most traction...
JAY BENDER You can't know the system worked until you have the available information that was before the court.
JAY BENDER It's really going to require [a familiarity] with technology and systems, with strategy and with mar...
LAUREN BENDER When we talk about the entire area being blighted we don't mean every parcel within that area. When ...
LARRY BENDER We are actively seeking developers to come down here. Every obstacle, every impediment, every challe...
LARRY BENDER Last night (Friday), a lot of us came out on the strip in front of the union and talked about it. We...
LARRY BENDER We don't know what is out there. We don't have any specific sites and don't know what needs to be cl...
LARRY BENDER By identifying those contaminants, we take out those question marks. Sometimes people put off coming...
LARRY BENDER A game like this let's me know I can do it.
JENNIFER BENDER I love it, it felt like the old days (in high school).
JENNIFER BENDER I've been picking up everything and now I'm starting to get into the groove.
JENNIFER BENDER We discovered these people are for real and very important,
MIKE BENDER I think they have a lot different view than the public as to what is a good movie.
MATT BENDER He's awesome to watch, has a lot of fire. And he really hits the ball full-bore.
MATT BENDER It's frustrating. I'm a firm believer that things happen for a reason. I suppose there's a reason fo...
MATT BENDER Anyone who knows anything about volleyball knows faster offenses are better. I don't even like fast ...
MATT BENDER I hope to get a job there, hopefully under software engineering.
MATT BENDER I haven't seen a lot of the movies they'll be talking about, so I can't really relate to whether I a...
MATT BENDER [Bender hopes that NAS report will turn things around.] This independent panel convened by Congress ...
MICHAEL BENDER If you go back and look at President Reagan's speeches, they bring you to tears almost.
LAWRENCE BENDER Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw A...
LAWRENCE BENDER The physical condition of the base is the best I've seen,
WILLIAM BENDER When I first walked in to London, I was so overwhelmed by the village, the sheer volume of people. I...
AIMEE WILLMOTT If you choose something that's really bold, it can really stand on its own.
AIMEE SANDS It's a fun way for guests to find a great surprise.
AIMEE SANDS It's much more interactive than just watching a commercial on TV.
AIMEE SANDS It reflects Isaac's bold, signature style, and makes for a bright, beautiful table. The Bright Strip...
AIMEE SANDS With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the gra...
AIMEE MCPHERSON What is my task? To get the gospel around the world in the shortest possible time to every man and w...
AIMEE MCPHERSON Lift up your heads, ye people, lift up your faces, too, open your mouths to sing His praise, and the...
AIMEE MCPHERSON What is my task? First of all, my task is to be pleasing to Christ. To be empty of self and be fille...
AIMEE MCPHERSON You have no business being sick-every one of you should get well and get up and go to work, huh? Get...
AIMEE MCPHERSON We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divi...
AIMEE MCPHERSON I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we?...
AIMEE MCPHERSON The Forgotten Arm. I don't know if we'd do an acoustic thing or bring the band back or what we'd do ...
AIMEE MANN We recorded the band pretty much live.
AIMEE MANN I'm not into music as a consumer. A songwriter should share their outlook with a measure of honesty,...
AIMEE MANN Something isn't right ? I don't know how I know,
AIMEE MANN I really wanted the record to have a ... feel of an era,
AIMEE MANN I don't think it's really a term you would come across in boxing. I have a friend who is a boxer who...
AIMEE MANN You pay to get radio play, pretty much, ... and you get what you pay for. It's not really a level pl...
AIMEE MANN The guy's a Vietnam vet and a boxer, but he's also a drug addict, and she's trying to get away from ...
AIMEE MANN Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy...
AIMEE MANN I feel really special, I do. No matter how temporary it may be. You're only as cool as your last coo...
AIMEE MANN (Surrogacy) just felt right for us.
AIMEE JOHNSON In one phone call, you're whole life changes. We dropped the whole baby thing. Thankfully I was at t...
AIMEE JOHNSON I don't even know how to say thank you for what their family has done for us.
AIMEE JOHNSON There was a 50 percent chance that one would even take and I think less than a 5 percent chance that...
AIMEE JOHNSON She's doing good. She's happy to be home, that's for sure.
AIMEE EHLENFELDT For them to accuse me; it was just devastating.
AIMEE EHLENFELDT My first reaction to the doctor was I'm going to throw up. I couldn't even stomach it.
AIMEE EHLENFELDT It's been really hard. It's kind of an eye-opener. It just goes to show you can't trust everybody.
AIMEE EHLENFELDT It's to give people in different areas an opportunity to preview the races. Each year it will be hel...
AIMEE BOYD It's to give people in different areas an opportunity to preview the races. Each year it will be hel...
AIMEE BOYD The Galt House has assured us that our needs will be taken care of as far as the show producers and ...
AIMEE BOYD It's special because it brings the whole community together.
AIMEE BOYD It?s special because it brings the whole community together. Everything is coming to life, it?s spri...
AIMEE BOYD Our defense has kept us in many games. It's strong, solid and ready to go. I can't commend my defens...
AIMEE BATES After the game I told the kids not to focus too much on the loss and try to focus more on the huge s...
AIMEE BATES