Chavarria History Quotes & Sayings

The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten. — Albert Einstein

Finally I found something on the list, something vital: instant coffee. I held the red plastic container, one of the last three on the shelf, held it like the marvel that it was: the seeds inside the purple fruits of coffee plants had been harvested on Andean slopes and roasted and ground and soaked and then dehydrated at a factory in Medellin and vacuum-sealed and flown to JFK and then driven upstate in bulk to Pearl River for repackaging and then transported by truck to the store where I now stood reading the label. It was as if the social relations that produced the object in my hand began to glow within it as they were threatened, stirred inside their packaging, lending it a certain aura
the majesty and murderous stupidity of that organization of time and space and fuel and labor becoming visible in the commodity itself now that planes were grounded and the highways were starting to close. — Ben Lerner

It is curious that I can't say who I am. That is to say, I know it all too well, but I can't say it. — Clarice Lispector

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both. — Cormac McCarthy

I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk. — Morris Chestnut

Someday is not a day of the week. — Janet Dailey

Yeah right,' Jacob muttered. 'I'm sure he's quite the pacifist. — Stephenie Meyer

I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school. — Catherine Bell

I am a communist and my painting is a communist painting. But if I were a shoemaker, Royalist or Communist or anything else, I would not necessarily hammer my shoes in any special way to show my politics. — Pablo Picasso

We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste. — Rob Bignell, Editor

We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time. — Virginia Woolf

Seek greater knowledge and you shall possess greater truth — Natalya