Chicano Style Quotes & Sayings

But if the arrow is straight
And the point is slick,
It can pierce through dust no matter how thick.
So I'll make my stand
And remain as I am
And bid farewell and not give a damn. — Bob Dylan

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. — Dave Hickey

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. — Samuel Johnson

Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts. — Susan Jane Gilman

My parents both renounced their material lives and were living as monks at an ashram in L.A. when they met each other. So we were always raised in this environment and when we moved to the ashram in Florida it was just like, "Oh, wow, now all of a sudden there's more people like us," because we were growing up in the middle of Texas with our parents, always being the weirdos. — Taraka Larson

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future. — Michel De Montaigne

Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?"
"Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see. — J.D. Robb

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

I always tell my students that you can do anything you can get away with, that implausibility is a problem of style. If people bring issues of plausibility to bear on what you're doing, you're not doing it well enough. — Marilynne Robinson

My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator. — Tom Brokaw