Comienza Carretera Quotes & Sayings

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence. — Michael Eric Dyson

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial. — James Surowiecki

The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be discerned. — Patrick W. Carr

I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone. — Malcolm Gladwell

Transformation always requires radical action. — Daniel Waters

What you absolutely must not do is turn around and walk out. Otherwise, you will miss the party, and that would be a pity, because - please believe me - we did not come all this great distance, and make all this great effort, only to miss the party at the last moment. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't. — Michael Moriarty

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult ... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. — Og Mandino

Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ. — Edward Norris Kirk

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not. — Heinrich Heine

You have to be odd to be number one. — Dr Suess