J Villoro Quotes & Sayings

I like to take folks back to the turn of the century when people said 'gas cars can never replace horses because you can feed horses at your house, you get along with them, they're nice.' — Chris Paine

Guilt is often assumed before innocence can be proven. — Miguel Syjuco

The Mexican utopia has consisted of enjoying your fifteen minutes of impunity. — Juan Villoro

Are we all on the same page, Delilah?
The same page? I don't even think we're even in the same library, but no need to bring that up. — Sarah Ockler

I go out with actresses because I'm not apt to marry one. — Henry A. Kissinger

Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose. — William Taylor

I'm not flying to the moon. But when I've talked to people who have been up, you can tell it's really special because without fail a very special light comes into their eyes and they appear to be very fulfilled in some way and very calm. — Sarah Brightman

Crimes can be redeemed, but nothing saves you from mediocrity. — Juan Villoro

I wonder if men find it easier than women do to consider people not as bodies, as lives, but as numbers, figures, toys of the mind to be pushed about a battleground of the mind. This disembodiment gives pleasure, exciting them and freeing them to act for the sake of acting, for the sake of manipulating the figures, the game pieces. Love of country, or honor, or freedom, then, may be names they give that pleasure to justify it to the gods and to the people who suffer and kill and die in the game. So those words - love, honor, freedom - are degraded from their true sense. Then people may come to hold them in contempt as meaningless, and poets must struggle to give them back their truth. — Ursula K. Le Guin

People hope that if they scream loudly enough about "values" then others will mistake them for serious, sensitive souls who have higher and nobler perceptions than ordinary people. Otherwise, why would they be screaming? Moral bitterness is a basic technique for endowing the idiot with dignity. — Marshall McLuhan

Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present? — Orson Scott Card

when the bullets are flying and the bombs are dropping, the ability to zig and zag is far more valuable than the capacity to figure out the calibre of the bullets and what kinds of planes are flying overhead. — Robert Herjavec

I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards. — Jenny Eclair

Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing. — J. Michael Straczynski

Max, Hans, and Rosa I cannot account for, but I know that Liesel Meminger was thinking that if the bombs ever landed on Himmel Street, not only did Max have less chance of survival than everyone else, but he would die completely alone. — Markus Zusak