Like Water For Chocolate Gertrudis Quotes & Sayings

Peter took a deep breath. 'Really, Mother! Anyone who blows pink bubble in front of a Picasso Blue painting should be arrested. — E.L. Konigsburg

A designer ... has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the obvious, and hence, the unspontaneous. Rather, he should provide that quality of thought and intuition which rejects the ineffectual commonplace for effectual originality. — Lester Beall

You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world. — George Pope Morris

You can go to the bank and borrow money, but you can't go to the bank and borrow a Super Bowl ring. The ring is like a crown. — Joe Greene

The silence of an African jungle on a dark night needs to be experienced to be realised; it is most impressive, especially when one is absolutely alone and isolated from one's fellow creatures, as I was then. — John Henry Patterson

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading. — Kelley Armstrong

Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty. — Allen Neuharth

The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of proletarian democracy. To the degree that the proletariat mobilizes itself and the great masses of the people, the socialist revolution is advanced. The proletariat mobilizes itself as a self-acting force through its own committees, unions, parties, and other organizations. — C.L.R. James

To be happy you have to know what you really want. After all, you can never have enough of what you didn't want in the first place. True happiness isn't a thing or a commodity, it's something you cultivate and share. — Robert Holden

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success. — Gertrude Himmelfarb

Me trying to kill people wasn't as bad as me tearing people down and making people cry and ripping them apart, because words never heal. That's what I've learned. I'd rather raise my son and tell him, "If you get in a fight with your friend, just punch him. Don't say anything, because the next day he doesn't get over that."' — Reginald Arvizu

No matter what anyone's saying to you from outside, the most important conversation is the one you are gaving with yourself on the inside — Robert T. Kiyosaki

But it's no use now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person! — Lewis Carroll

England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee! — Philip James Bailey