Leonor Rivera Quotes & Sayings

Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me. — Al Pacino

The minute you understand racism, you're responsible for being racist. It's like eating from the tree of knowledge. — Lynda Barry

Who needs a bladder when you need an alarm clock — T. Haque

Could he throw no light? — Arthur Conan Doyle

We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood ... What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke! — Henry David Thoreau

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society. — Lebbeus Woods

The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live. — Joseph Heller

I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it. — Laura Hillenbrand

I do not see how it's possible to have a "friends with benefits" lifestyle, because if the sex is great, it's going to naturally expand into a more meaningful relationship. Otherwise, it's just a booty call. — Jenna Elfman

Hustle tries. Then it fails. Then it tries again, because of grit, which is simply being brave when you don't feel like being brave. — Jon Acuff

You are who you choose to be. — Ted Hughes

Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. — Henry David Thoreau

What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction? — Anne Frank

Sometimes you even start to sound like the character, because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones, it becomes a part of you. — Richard Dormer

A recent study suggests that 75 per cent of the weight-loss response in obesity is predicted by insulin levels.29 Not willpower. Not caloric intake. Not peer support or peer pressure. Not exercise. Just insulin. — Jason Fung