Escualido Feo Quotes & Sayings

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer. — Leslie Caron

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist! — Peter Handke

Most men haven't got a clue how to treat a woman, let alone respect her. You give women what you think they need and usually that falls way short of what's actually necessary. And then you fall back on fragile egos, guilting her into taking watered down affection that masquerades as a relationship. — Sydney Addae

I want to walk like I'm the only woman on earth and I can have my pick. — Kim Addonizio

I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways. — Ted Dekker

All my work will explode inside my body, each fragment of my anatomy will acquire a life of its own, outside mine, Humberto won't exist, only these monsters, the despot who imprisoned me at La Rinconada to force me to invent him, Ines's honey complexion, Brigida's death, Iris Mateluna's hysterical pregnancy, the saintly girl who was never beatified, Humberto Penaloza's father pointing out Don Jeronimo dressed up to go to the Jockey Club, and your benign, kind hand, Mother Benita, that does not and will not let go of mine, and your attention fixed on these words of a mute, and your rosaries, the Casa's La Rinconada as it once was, as it is now, as it was afterwards, the escape, the crime, all of it alive in my brain, Peta Ponce's prism refracting and confusing everything and creating simultaneous and contradictory planes, everything without ever reaching paper, because I always hear voices and laughter enveloping and tying me up. — Jose Donoso

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people. — Larry Page

My father was a very contradictory man. — John Malkovich

and he really did love cooling off in the water... — Bang On The Door

That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. — Louisa May Alcott

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. — Charlie Munger

It would be easier if people were just good or bad and that was that.
pg. 313 — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Doing my best in any situation is all I can do. If I worry about it while I'm doing it, I won't do my best. — James Altucher