Carlos Monsivais Quotes & Sayings

I like driving cab. Receptionists, sales clerks, waitresses -- they all have to look pleasant all the time. I can snarl if I want. There ain't too many women who can do that. Maybe garment workers are allowed to snarl at their sewing machines. But women mostly have to look pleasant when they're fucking miserable, and smile when they're angry. — Helen Potrebenko

It is an important matter to train the voice in flexibility. Even voices which are naturally rebellious and heavy are sure to gain by it in mellowness and beauty. — Giovanni Battista Lamperti

Choose your companions before you choose your road. — Patrick Lencioni

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The night was electric - The night was in italics. — Martin Amis

I was just an average bloke. It was the media that tried to transform me into a heroic figure. But I've learned through the years, as long as you don't believe all that rubbish about yourself, you can't come to too much harm.' - Sir Edmund Hillary — Greg Mortenson

We were fifteen months apart in age which meant everything was a competition; who could read all the Disney books the fastest, ride their bike further or know all answers to the universe both large and small. — K.L. Randis