De Bajas Tex Mex Quotes & Sayings

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me. — Derek Bailey

Eating words and listening to them rumbling in the gut is how a writer learns the acid and alkali of language. It is a process at the same time physical and intellectual. The writer has to hear language until she develops perfect pitch, but she also has to feel language, to know it sweat and dry. The writer finds the words are visceral, and when she can eat them, wear them, and enter them like tunnels she discovers the alleged separation between word and meaning between writer and word is theoretical. — Jeanette Winterson

I could have told, just looking at him, that that was the tone he would use asking a question. A tone that took it for granted any question he asked was going to be answered because he asked it. I don't like it and I know of no way anybody is ever going to make me like it. — Rex Stout

See yourself what you would like to be known for rather than your current position. — Dhaval Gajera

So often we don't give from our abundance. We give from what we have no use for. I have learned that God not only looks at what we give but also at what we keep. — Kathy Troccoli

I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me. — Patrick Roy

Knowledge is still power
but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song. — Bob Walker

This is the first great problem of modern democracy ... how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood and manhood. — John R. Commons

Bad things are gonna' happen to you, because they happen to us all. And worrying won't stave the really bad things off. Don't make the mistake of comparing your twisted-up insides to other people's blow-dried outsides. Even the most privileged person in this stadium suffers the torments of the damned just going about the business of being human. — Mary Karr

No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work for the world which falls to his share. Even though the full understanding of his work, and of its ultimate value, may not be present with him; if he but love it
always assuming that his conscience approves
it brings an abounding satisfaction. — Leopold Hartley Grindon