Juanito Pistolas Quotes & Sayings

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits. — Isabel Allende

You don't judge me, you don't try and make it better. You just let me feel bad while making me feel really good . . . I want to do that for you, too. — Jay Crownover

Your job is to be you, which includes being the chief beneficiary of all things you do right, the chief victim of all you do wrong, and the one person on Earth who has to live with every choice you make. As gatekeeper to your life, you're it. — Carolyn Hax

Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him. — Tove Jansson

When we come out of agreement with lies and have our minds renewed to the truth, demons can be removed. Once we've found a person who is willing to be set free, the demons we are shown can be dealt with. — Praying Medic

Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears. — John Legend

Photons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic. — Woody Allen

Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front. — Dave Evans

I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin? — John Keats

When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent and wanted to tour and be on Grand Ole Opry [radio show]. It was the big deal back in those days to play the Grand Ole Opry. And you could travel around the world saying, "Hi, I'm Willie from the Grand Ole Opry". — Willie Nelson

We're not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers. — Mitt Romney

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. — Edith Wharton

I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform. — Eskinder Nega

Art transcends selfish and obsessive limitations of personality and can enlarge the sensibility of its consumer. It is a kind of goodness by proxy. Most of all it exhibits to us the connection, in human beings, of clear realistic vision with compassion. The realism of a great artist is not a photographic realism, it is essentially both pity and justice. — Iris Murdoch

It's a professional military. You sign up and agree to allow your countrymen to use your life as they see fit for the next four years. And I think we all should have a greater role in ensuring that we use those lives wisely. — Phil Klay