Ben Baldanza Quotes & Sayings

Each play I write has its own unique origin story. — Lynn Nottage

I have always examined closely the motives of any group for which I am asked to raise money. — Kate Smith

Until then, there is joy, which by the way does not, as was once thought, require contrast with fear and pain to keep its zing. — Dean Koontz

What was the worst thing you've ever done?
I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me ... the most dreadful thing ... — Peter Straub

The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous. — Dave Brubeck

This isn't like peanut butter. You can't just add nuts and make me chunky. — Anyta Sunday

the thought process:
"It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink it, until - you know the little tug - the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one's line: and then the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out?" p.5 — Virginia Woolf

You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames. — Martin Freeman

And at that very moment ladies in black garments, scores of them, are scattered throughout St. Louis de France church, kneeling or sitting or some standing at the various special shrines, their lips muttering prayers for similar requests for similar troubles in their own poor lives and if indeed the Lord seeth all and saw all that is going on and all the beseechment in His name in dark earth-churches throughout the kingdom of consciousness, it would be with pain He'd attend and bend His thoughts to it. — Jack Kerouac

William: What's your nickname?
Maddox: I do not have one.
William I'm happy to give you one. Captain Ass. What do you think?
Maddox: I can leave.
William: New nickname: Big Baby. Anyway, let's continue ... — Gena Showalter

Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones.
" ... Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her."
"Who was it?"
"His own wife."
"Oh, dear. — Lisa Kleypas

If the human brain is really capable of having 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts per day, Brent was living proof, because he never stopped thinking. — Kenneth Eade

Everything we need is already there. The challenge is letting go of all our stuff in the way. — Tara Stiles