Best Machado Quotes & Sayings

Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times ... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less ... I guess you could say less aggressive. — Alicia Machado

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant. — Antonio Machado

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues. — Antonio Machado

I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it. — China Machado

He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum; this led people to say that the alienist's concept of madness included practically everybody. — Machado De Assis

But don't hunt for dissonance:
There is no such thing;
People dance to all tunes. — Antonio Machado

I grew up speaking English and Spanish. I grew up moving from country to country due to political, governmental, and social issues and just family atmosphere that wasn't right to bring up your kid in a country where there's a dictatorship or a communist type sense, so I incorporate that int music. — Cristian Machado

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism. — Machado De Assis

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent. — Machado De Assis

I have no nationality, no country. — China Machado

I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup. — Antonio Machado

There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector. — Antonio Machado

Pathmaker, there is no path;
You make the path by walking,
By walking you make the Path — Antonio Machado

To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. — Machado De Assis

We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct takes over your capability to really think things through. — Cristian Machado

Dream-travelers, there is no path, paths are made by dreaming. — Antonio Machado

If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado! — Carlson Gracie

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be
forged as you walk. — Antonio Machado

The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of guys had just caught all this yellow fin tuna; they literally brought this huge wooden table down to the sand, pulled the tuna from the boat, dropped it on top of the table, pulled the skin off and sliced the tuna up. — Rob Machado

Those sloppy priests that go around without their cassocks!" he would agonize. "Better that they go without their cassocks since they're just chasing after prostitutes anyway!" And he'd agonize more. It was true. There were womanizing priests. And liquor flowed faster than communion wine among them. Pastoral plans? They all went up in smoke. There was no interest. There was no effort. And the bishop? Bishop Machado didn't give orders and he didn't give advice. What he gave were loans at outrageous interest rates. Everybody knew those stories, and Father Romero knew them best because he saw all the drama from the inside. — Maria Lopez Vigil

Has my heart gone to sleep?
Have the beehives of my dreams
stopped working, the waterwheel
of the mind run dry,
scoops turning empty,
only shadow inside?
No, my heart is not asleep.
It is awake, wide awake.
Not asleep, not dreaming
its eyes are opened wide
watching distant signals, listening
on the rim of vast silence — Antonio Machado

You'd be surprised how cold you get in the water, especially surfing a place like Pipeline. If the tradewinds are blowing, it gets chilly and sometimes you don't catch a wave for an hour. — Rob Machado

,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them. — Machado De Assis

There is no country that has the best men. — Alicia Machado

He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude - all the qualities that go to make an utter madman. — Machado De Assis

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't. — Antonio Machado

I think I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world. I travel around looking for the best waves and appreciate it every second. — Rob Machado

If you're pop and you don't talk about all the pretty things in life and having sex, then you're not really pop. — Cristian Machado

All our efforts must tend towards light. — Antonio Machado

Nothing could happen to me in the water that would make me want to go on the beach and fight someone. That's just not how I do things. — Rob Machado

It seems like the powers that be are really trying to separate everything and really divide the genres and divide the trends. If you're metal and you don't sound like Slayer would sound now, then you're not metal. If you're punk rock and you don't sound like and preach about what The Sex Pistols would have preached about back in the day, then you're not really punk rock. — Cristian Machado

I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I only see people who I like to be with. I have led a wonderful life. — China Machado

Your footsteps are the road, wanderer, and nothing else
there is no road, it is born of walking
and looking back, you gaze upon the path
to which you never shall return
there is no road, wanderer
only wakes upon the sea — Antonio Machado

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human. — Antonio Machado

You do not choose what your mission is; it will come to you when you are ready! — Carlos Machado

There he is, bent over the page, with a monocle in his right eye, wholly devoted to the noble but rugged task of ferreting out the error. He has already promised himself to write a little monograph in which he will relate the finding of the book and the discovery of the error, if there really is one hidden there. In the end, he discovers nothing and contents himself with possession of the book. He closes it, gazes at it, gazes at it again, goes to the window and holds it in the sun. The only copy! At this moment a Caesar or a Cromwell passes beneath his window, on the road to power and glory. He turns his back, closes the window, stretches in his hammock, and fingers the leaves of the book slowly, lovingly, tasting it sip by sip ... An only copy! — Machado De Assis

Even after going to law school, following the footsteps of my father (an accomplished lawyer and judge at the time); I realized that the suit would never replace the kimono! — Carlos Machado

What the poet is searching for
is not the fundamental I
but the deep you. — Antonio Machado