Cochabamba Bolivia Quotes & Sayings

Corporations continue to do their dirty work in poor countries. At the turn of the 21st century, the World Bank put pressure on Bolivia to privatize water services. Bechtel, the engineering giant, took control of this vital resource in Cochabamba. Bechtel's executives immediately raised the price of water so high that most people could not afford it. Its contract, made in collusion with the Bolivian government, gave Bechtel the right to charge people for water they took from their own wells. Bechtel even sent collectors into people's homes to demand payment for rainwater that people gathered in pots and pans on their roofs. — David Zindell

And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered. — Justin Chambers

There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven - the crucified Son of God. — J.C. Ryle

If a can opener no longer has the capacity to open cans, what is it? — Alan Hirsch

Guess the question is, how paranoid do you want to be? How many guns does it take to make you feel safe? And how do you simultaneously keep them loaded and close at hand, but still out of reach of your inquisitive children or grandchildren? Are you sure you wouldn't do better with a really good burglar alarm? It's true you have to remember to set the darn thing before you go to bed, but think of this - if you happened to mistake your wife or live-in partner for a crazed drug addict, you couldn't shoot her with a burglar alarm. — Stephen King

I try to stay in line and not be a jerk. I've always been conscious that if I really screw up, people might notice. — Amanda Hearst

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn. — Gene Hackman

But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy. — Clive Barker

D'Avray, her father, and I had met before in Algeria. He was dying now. He left the child on his death-bed to me. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out. — Edward T. Hall

The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse. — Patrick Kavanagh

I learned to read at the age of five, in Brother Justiniano's class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space and allowing me to travel with Captain Nemo twenty thousand leagues under the sea, fight with d'Artagnan, Athos, Portos, and Aramis against the intrigues threatening the Queen in the days of the secretive Richelieu, or stumble through the sewers of Paris, transformed into Jean Valjean carrying Marius's inert body on my back. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

I started at the top and worked my way down. — Orson Welles

How did you get here?" Harry asked.
"Flew," said Hagrid.
"Flew? — J.K. Rowling

Playing USA Softball has been more to me than I ever imagined possible. — Jennie Finch

Useless to tell myself that a dream
and the memory of yesterday are the same thing — BORGES JORGE LUIS

My hiatus is over, my soul and body are healed, but I will never leave the purple chair for long. So many books waiting to be read, so much happiness to be found, so much wonder to be revealed. — Nina Sankovitch