Amado Fuentes Quotes & Sayings

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. — Booker T. Washington

Apparently, organizers kept Elvis Presley from joining his school's glee club. They said his voice would ruin their sound. — Ken Robinson

Since I am never alone with myself. Since I am always watching the character playing my part in the scene, there is no possibility of spontaneity. — Ronan Bennett

The table seemed to have risen a little toward the sky like a mechanical dancing platform, giving the people around it a sense of being alone with each other in the dark universe, nourished by its only food, warmed by its only lights. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Though liberty is established by law, we must be vigilant, for liberty to enslave us is always present under that very liberty. Our Constitution speaks of the "general welfare of the people." Under that phrase all sorts of excesses can be employed by lusting tyrants to make us bondsmen. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I think one who thrives on death may be defeated by life.
Elswyth, from A Precarious Journey Into Magic — Jenna Lindsey

Hark! Peace! It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is about it. — William Shakespeare

I wish I was better looking. — Mel Brooks

That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles. — William Shakespeare

Frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace. — Joyce Meyer

Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure. — Lydia Millet

Picking my topics is sort of a process of elimination for me. Most things don't work for me. I like to cover science and unexpected things happening in labs. Also, theoretical research doesn't work for my style. I need scenes and interactions. Then, humor. I'm having the most fun when I can have fun with my work. — Mary Roach

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely. — Learned Hand