Distinguido Tequila Quotes & Sayings

Published in this month's Harper's, from a conversation held in Beijing in February 1973:
Chairman Mao Zedong: Do you want our Chinese women? We can give you ten million.
U.S. National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger: The chairman is improving his offer.
Mao: We can let them flood your country with disaster and therefore impair your interests. In our country we have too many women, and they have a way of doing things. They give birth to children, and our children are too many. — Mao Tse-tung

Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment. — Isabella Bird

You don't see what you're seeing until you see it but when you do see it, it lets you see many other things. — William Thurston

Money and stuff aren't what makes us happy. It's strong connections within families and friends, communities of people that truly care about one another. — Jayni Chase

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear - love did. — Patricia Briggs

You can't be one of the best freesurfers and a world champion. — Jordy Smith

Working with the likes of Joseph Fiennes was just an incredible experience. — Alice Eve

The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener. — David Lanz

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it. — Justin Guarini

In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting I just wasn't that much of a con artist. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes. — James Wright

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career. — J. Paul Getty

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too. — Viola Davis