Bienal De Cuenca Quotes & Sayings

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,' — Ezra Pound

The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral pleasures. It weighs the obvious against what in its terms are incomprehensible. When I drive from here to there, speed, privacy, control, and safety are easy to claim. When I walk, what happens is more vague, more ambiguous-and in many circumstances much richer. I am out in the world. It's exercise, though not so quantifiably as on a treadmill in a gym with a digital readout. — Rebecca Solnit

There is no solution; seek it lovingly — Socrates

As the head of an expedition, you can't pussyfoot around being polite to everyone. You have to show your teeth once in a while; a little growling goes a long way. — Tahir Shah

It is better to live life with a daring hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Music can reach those places where words alone can't go. — Arianna Huffington

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies. — Karin Fossum

The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies. — Mason Cooley

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me. — Maggie Stiefvater

If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls. — Oriana Fallaci

you would be surprised by the things you can walk through when it is necessary to keep walking. — Travis Mulhauser

I always fight hard to push a movie to the point where it pulls me. — James L. Brooks

It remains a mystery why these three young men, veterans of the same training and the same crash, differed so radically in their perceptions of their plight. Maybe the difference was biological; some men may be wired for optimism, others for doubt. As a toddler, Louie had leapt from a train — Laura Hillenbrand

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States. Many people have no idea what the relationship is between Puerto Rico and the United States. And certainly, I have been asked if we are citizens. — Sonia Sotomayor

The forgetting and having to remember again was the very worst part. — Ann Brashares