Herrera Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes you see women that don't realize that age is changing your style, and they don't change. — Carolina Herrera

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen. — Juan Felipe Herrera

I pull his hair a little harder while pushing his head harder against me. His fingers curl inside me, stroking my spot as his tongue caresses my clit with increased urgency." - Sofia Herrera (Never Say Never, Unbearable Passion, #1) — Scarlett Avery

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect. — Carolina Herrera

The only thing that I am trying to do is to find stories that I like, stories that are meaningful and that can connect and question, since I am not 18 years old anymore. — Alfonso Herrera

I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women. — Carolina Herrera

One thing about my mother is that she has her taste: She knows what she likes and what looks good. It's not studied. There is no insecurity in what she is going to wear, and I think that translates into effortlessness. Her career has been a steady rise, and it hasn't been about the fashion of the moment. It's been because she has kept to her style. She didn't go grunge when it was grunge, or 70's when it was 70's. It's about being secure with what you like and not worrying about what's in fashion that particular day. That's what I admire about her. — Carolina Herrera

You have to deal with the fashion egos. You know, there is a lot. It shouldn't be treated that seriously because fashion is only making dresses to make women look beautiful. We're not inventing anything new. — Carolina Herrera

We always know better than anybody else what looks best on us. Even if people are complimenting you, if you think, 'I hate what I have on,' it's not right. — Carolina Herrera

I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn. — Carolina Herrera

Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it. — Carolina Herrera

Life is truly a miracle and must be protected, safeguarded and treasured. — Q.M. Herrera

Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally. — Carolina Herrera

I believe that you have to treat the people who work with you like your family. — Carolina Herrera

I'm usually writing in English, and then I'll get the hankering to change channels. And usually I'll do that when I want to try a whole new set of keys, like musical keys. — Juan Felipe Herrera

He always found it a miracle that anyone wanted his company. Women especially - men will cuddle a rock. When he first started getting laid he couldn't quite believe that the women in his bed weren't there by mistake. Sometimes he'd leave the room and then peer back in, and then peer in again, incredulous that a woman was actually lying there naked, waiting for him. As if. In time he found his thing: fly in like a fool to start, then turn on the silver tongue. Talk and cock, talk and cock, yessir. One time a girl confessed that Vicky, his friend the nurse, had given her a warning before she introduced them. Take one look and if you don't like what you see don't even say hi or you'll end up wanting to fuck. Best thing anyone ever said about him. It didn't matter that they never came back, or rarely. He didn't mind being disposable. — Yuri Herrera

Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered. — Carolina Herrera

There are many movies that I like, but I'm not sure if they have inspired me. — Alfonso Herrera

Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe. — Juan Felipe Herrera

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while. — Carolina Herrera

When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror. — Carolina Herrera

I'm not sure Messi is a human. — Ander Herrera

The first task is to get to know the players really well-watching them as individuals in training and in match play-to see what is good in their natural game. Then, and only then, can we begin to outline the general tactics. — Helenio Herrera

Oft times, we must fight a battle, if only to learn to lay down our arms. — Shaman Elizabeth Herrera

Before you go further,
let me tell you what a poem brings,
first, you must know the secret, there is no poem
to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries ... — Juan Felipe Herrera

I want our young Latinos and Latinas to write their hearts out and express their hearts out and let us all listen to each other. — Juan Felipe Herrera

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher. — Juan Felipe Herrera

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days. — Juan Felipe Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone. — Carolina Herrera

Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready. — Carolina Herrera

He is an exceptional talent. I still think Diego Maradona is the best player I have ever seen but Messi is closing in fast. He's a wonderful sight in full flight and we are lucky to have him around. — Ander Herrera

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public. — Carolina Herrera

Sometimes it's like that. I go, 'You know what? I'm going to just change scales. I'm going to even change instruments. And I'm going to go into the chromatics of the Spanish language,' and I do. You know, the poem is totally different. It's like a lunar voice versus a day voice, a solar voice. — Juan Felipe Herrera

I didn't long to be a designer. I always liked fashion, but it was always a bit sleeping in me. — Carolina Herrera

All families had started off in some mysterious waay: to repopulate the earth, or by accident, or by force, or out of boredom; and it's all a mystery what each will become. — Yuri Herrera

That's why we make enemies of our friends as soon as they start to drift, he thought, cos that way they get stuck with all our flaws, unlike when they're shared. Maybe brief friendships are best. If you pul out in time, the vices are all theirs. — Yuri Herrera

British and American women have very different styles and a different way of living. — Carolina Herrera

You are a door, not the one who walks through. — Yuri Herrera

In general, fashion is challenging. Everything from clothes to fragrances. — Carolina Herrera

They might be talking in perfect latin tongue and without warning begin to talk in perfect anglo tongue and keep it up like that, alternating between a thing that believes itself to be perfect and a thing that believes itself to be perfect, morphing back and forth between two beasts until out of carelessness or clear intent they suddenly stop switching tongues and start speaking that other one. In it brims nostalgia for the land they left or never knew when they use the words with which they name objects; while actions are alluded to with an anglo verb conjugated latin-style, pinning on a sonorous tail from back there. Using in one tongue the word for a thing in the other makes the attributes of both resound: if you say Give me fire when they say Give me a light, what is not to be learned about fire, light and the act of giving? It's not another way of saying things: these are new things — Yuri Herrera

Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds. — Carolina Herrera

I've been dressing Renee on the red carpet for the past three years, ... I think she always looks great. She has the right proportion for my clothes. She has that tiny waist and she loves fashion. — Carolina Herrera

This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for border security as well. So again, this is not an issue about being anti-Mexican. — Henry Bonilla

My mother was a great storyteller and a great historian in her own way. She only made it to third grade. She came from Mexico City at the tail end of the Mexican Revolution and that kind of turmoil and chaos and frenzy and also excitement. — Juan Felipe Herrera

By middle school, I said to myself that it's time I begin to speak. I joined the choir, not because I wanted to. I forced myself. — Juan Felipe Herrera

I believe that we have to lift the voice without fear and simply go forward, because in a lot of other occasions, we got tired, we have lowered the arms and simply let everything happen. — Alfonso Herrera

The Immovable Object can also be construed as an idea whose
time has come. It's an idea of proportions that the human mind can
only grasp a small portion. Like the idea of freedom during the days
of revolution - only a handful understand what it means for the long
term, but it's the idea that cause people to take up arms, revolt
against the ruling class and fight for what they perceive to be
freedom. — Carla R. Herrera

It was a dream for me to play in the red shirt - I will keep this shirt with me always. I hope this is the start of a lot of games for United, It wasn't only me in this game though, I think the whole team enjoyed the game and did well. It's the first match and we have done good things. It's a good step and we're very happy. — Ander Herrera

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going. — Omar Torrijos Herrera

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced. — Jaime Herrera Beutler

I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem. — Juan Felipe Herrera

I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman. — Carolina Herrera

I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same. — Carolina Herrera

I'm dead, Makina said to herself when everything lurched: a man with a cane was crossing the street, a dull groan suddenly surged through the asphalt, the man stood still as if waiting for someone to repeat the question and then the earth opened up beneath his feet: it swallowed the man, and with him a car and a dog, all the oxygen around and even the screams of passers-by. I'm dead, Makina said to herself, and hardly had she said it than her whole body began to contest that verdict and she flailed her feet frantically backward, each step mere inches from the sinkhole, until the precipice settled into a perfect circle and Makina was saved. Slippery bitch of a city, she said to herself. Always about to sink back into the the cellar. — Yuri Herrera

Your friends, and your associates, and the people around you, and the environment that you live in, and the speakers around you - the speakers around you - and the communicators around you, are the poetry makers.
If your mother tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
If your father says stories, he is a poetry maker.
If your grandma tells you stories, she is a poetry maker.
And that's who forms our poetics. — Juan Felipe Herrera

I don't think women need another black bag. Everybody has a black bag already, so I thought this season (needs) color. — Carolina Herrera

You can be very feminine and be a leader. Christine Lagarde, she's very chic and she dresses very well, and she's a woman. And she has a lot of power. — Carolina Herrera

Some people take fashion very seriously ... but that's not right ... Fashion should be fun! — Carolina Herrera

Yes, I am the first Latino poet laureate in the United States. But I'm also here for everyone and from everyone. My voice is made by everyone's voices. — Juan Felipe Herrera

What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room. — Juan Felipe Herrera

There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie. — Carolina Herrera

f you don't heal yourself, you will
continue relying on miracles to heal your manifestations,one after another, creating a cycle where you don't make
any progress. Unless the root cause is eliminated, the problem will reappear in some form. — Shaman Elizabeth Herrera

People confuse vulgar and naked with sexiness. You want the mystery! — Carolina Herrera

I have a responsibility to the woman of today - to make her feel confident, modern and above all else beautiful. — Carolina Herrera

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older. — Carolina Herrera

San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. — Juan Felipe Herrera

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another. — Carolina Herrera

The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city. — Carolina Herrera

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem. — Juan Felipe Herrera

Perhaps, like the way these leaves spread out and the way they curl in many directions and how they have many features, I think that's how my road has been. — Juan Felipe Herrera

I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind terribly if I have to say something. — Carolina Herrera

Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together. — Carolina Herrera

When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it. — Olivier Theyskens

The positive thing is that today we can realize that a Mexican film it is positioned in the top 5 of the box office during more than one month and that Mexicans are taking into consideration that Mexican films can be enjoyed with the family, instead of going to see Transformers and that our films looks like something that are necessary to support. — Alfonso Herrera

Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. — Carolina Herrera

Physical injury carries with it the fallout of mental injury, the damage never being equal to the traumatic event. E does not equal MC2 in this particular case. The logic of emotion carries no logic and hurt is an emotional value. I'm unsure what that value equals. — Carla R. Herrera

We're broke. It's never a fun message to deliver. — Jaime Herrera Beutler

Hope is a Ferris wheel-
It takes Low and High;
And when you reach the Top,
It's like you can touch The Sky!
And when it takes you Down-
Hope becomes A Thing
That, When you're getting Off,
You take With you to Bring. — Robin Herrera

The more we engage in society, the more firsts we have, then there will be a moment when we have no more firsts. Or maybe there will always be new firsts. — Juan Felipe Herrera

We speak about understanding each other, having those conversations nationwide - culturally, historically - and yet there's a lot of gaps. So I want to assist with closing the gap of knowing about and hearing about our Latino communities in terms of literature, in terms of writing. — Juan Felipe Herrera

No matter what happens in this lifetime, we are never alone. — Q.M. Herrera

As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian. — Juan Felipe Herrera

I'm not going to say that I'm perfect. I do have fashion crises. — Carolina Herrera

Keep in shape: if you look good, you will feel confident. — Carolina Herrera

When you live and work in different time zones, you spend a lot of time on airplanes. — Carolina Herrera

Sometimes I have a very fleeting emotional dance with a fleeting phrase, like 'half-Mexican.' — Juan Felipe Herrera

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect. — Carolina Herrera

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.' — Juan Felipe Herrera

Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good. — Carolina Herrera

Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city. — Juan Felipe Herrera

The red carpet is very important. You have to be very careful to have the right person dressed in right way. For me, it has to be a perfect look. — Carolina Herrera

Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem. — Juan Felipe Herrera

Diversity really means becoming complete as human beings - all of us. We learn from each other. If you're missing on that stage, we learn less. We all need to be on that stage. — Juan Felipe Herrera

Pain exists only in the mind. Whether an event is real or not doesn't matter, only that the mind believes it is. Suffering can be suspended by achieving new beliefs and perspectives. We see what we want to see, and feel what we want to feel. Never doubt that the life you lead is the life you want. — Shaman Elizabeth Herrera

I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course, the Latinos and Latinas as well. — Juan Felipe Herrera

I'm very grateful to all the people of Fresno, to Philip Levine and all the poets before me, and all the farmworkers. I didn't get here by myself. — Juan Felipe Herrera

I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life. — Carolina Herrera

Everybody's crazy in some way and everybody's weird, and that kind of makes us all the same in a lot of ways. We're not alone, we just think we are. — Mike Herrera

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books. — Omar Torrijos Herrera

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community. — Carolina Herrera