Costa Ricans Quotes & Sayings

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't. — Dylan Thomas

We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration. — Laura Chinchilla

I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith. — Laura Chinchilla

She came to her own private conclusion, which she tucked away in a drawer, and silently went back to her meal. — Haruki Murakami

Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. Why I am I holding a dog full of angels? — Diana Wynne Jones

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me. — Warren Buffett

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked. — Mary Karr