Machado Quotes & Sayings

He was happy because, after such a long study, experimentation, and struggle, he could at last affirm the ultimate truth: there never were and never would be any madmen in Itaguai or anywhere else. — Machado De Assis

Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times ... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less ... I guess you could say less aggressive. — Alicia Machado

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. — Antonio Machado

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant. — Antonio Machado

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues. — Antonio Machado

Even though I respect many different religions, I don't really particularly just follow one. — Cristian Machado

But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost. — Alicia Machado

I take off my makeup with Ponds cold cream, and then I wash myself with gentle soap and water, and that's it. — China Machado

He discriminated against neither the avaricious nor the prodigal: both were committed to the asylum; this led people to say that the alienist's concept of madness included practically everybody. — Machado De Assis

We kill time; time buries us. — Machado De Assis

But don't hunt for dissonance:
There is no such thing;
People dance to all tunes. — Antonio Machado

I grew up speaking English and Spanish. I grew up moving from country to country due to political, governmental, and social issues and just family atmosphere that wasn't right to bring up your kid in a country where there's a dictatorship or a communist type sense, so I incorporate that int music. — Cristian Machado

This Narcissus of ours
Can't see his face in the mirror
Because he has become the mirror. — Antonio Machado

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism. — Machado De Assis

I do not have answers to all the problems, but for sure will work to find solutions to as many as I can. — Carlos Machado

There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas. — Machado De Assis

No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it. — China Machado

Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent. — Machado De Assis

Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled. — Antonio Machado

no longer remember which was our beginning.
I know that not we start at the beginning.
Was already love before being. — Lucilene Machado

I have no nationality, no country. — China Machado

I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup. — Antonio Machado

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence. — Antonio Machado

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up. — Antonio Machado

There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector. — Antonio Machado

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil. — Machado De Assis

I'm practical. I see something, and I do it. — China Machado

I make myself lie down every afternoon; otherwise I'll be too exhausted by the night-time. If I can't nap, I'll watch a little bit of TV and just relax for two or three hours. — China Machado

The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium. — Machado De Assis

I have actually been very blessed in my career. — Justina Machado

All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand — Antonio Machado

Imagine a man between thirty-eight and forty, tall, slim, and pale. His clothes, except for their style, looked as if they'd escaped from the Babylonian captivity. The hat was a contemporary of one of Gessler's. Imagine now a frock coat broader than the needs of his frame
or, literally, that person's bones. The fringe had disappeared some time ago, of the eight original buttons, three were left. The brown drill trousers had two strong knee patches, while the cuffs had been chewed by the heels of boots that bore no pity or polish. About his neck the ends of a tie of two faded colors floated, gripping a week-old collar. I think he was also wearing a dark silk vest, torn in places and unbuttoned.
"I'll bet you don't know me, my good Dr. Cubas," he said.
"I can't recall ... "
"I'm Borba, Quincas Borba. — Machado De Assis

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don't put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing. — Antonio Machado

It's the government's job to come in and help their citizens and guide their citizens to a brighter future and unfortunately in America that's not what's happening. — Cristian Machado

One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; it wasn't necessarily my favorite, but I will always remember it. — Rob Machado

Lovers' language, give me an exact and poetic comparison to say what those eyes of Capitu were like. No image comes to mind that doesn't offend against the rules of good style, to say what they were and what they did to me. Undertow eyes? Why not? Undertow. That's the notion that the new expression put in my head. They held some kind of mysterious, active fluid, a force that dragged one in, like the undertow of a wave retreating from the shore on stormy days. So as not to be dragged in, I held onto anything around them, her ears, her arms, her hair spread about her shoulders; but as soon as I returned to the pupils of her eyes again, the wave emerging from them grew towards me, deep and dark, threatening to envelop me, draw me in and swallow me up. — Machado De Assis

I thought my fireplace dead
and stirred the ashes.
I burned my fingers. — Antonio Machado

I've caught a glimpse of him in dreams:
expert hunter of himself,
every minute in ambush. — Antonio Machado

The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of guys had just caught all this yellow fin tuna; they literally brought this huge wooden table down to the sand, pulled the tuna from the boat, dropped it on top of the table, pulled the skin off and sliced the tuna up. — Rob Machado

I am beginning to be sorry that I ever undertook to write this book. Not that it bores me; I have nothing else to do; indeed, it is a welcome distraction from eternity. But the book is tedious, it smells of the tomb, it has a rigor mortis about it; a serious fault, and yet a relatively small one, for the great defect of this book is you, reader. You want to live fast, to get to the end, and the book ambles along slowly; you like straight, solid narrative and a smooth style, but this book and my style are like a pair of drunks; they stagger to the right and to the left, they start and they stop, they mutter, they roar, they guffaw, they threaten the sky, they slip and fall ...
And fall! Unhappy leaves of my cypress tree, you had to fall, like everything else that is lovely and beautiful; if I had eyes, I would shed a tear of remembrance for you. And this is the great advantage in being dead, that if you have no mouth with which to laugh, neither have you eyes with which to cry. — Machado De Assis

Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man. — Antonio Machado

,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them. — Machado De Assis

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart. — Antonio Machado

Those sloppy priests that go around without their cassocks!" he would agonize. "Better that they go without their cassocks since they're just chasing after prostitutes anyway!" And he'd agonize more. It was true. There were womanizing priests. And liquor flowed faster than communion wine among them. Pastoral plans? They all went up in smoke. There was no interest. There was no effort. And the bishop? Bishop Machado didn't give orders and he didn't give advice. What he gave were loans at outrageous interest rates. Everybody knew those stories, and Father Romero knew them best because he saw all the drama from the inside. — Maria Lopez Vigil

His eyes, blind to external reality but highly perceptive in the realm of the inner life, rose from the book to the ceiling and returned to the book. — Machado De Assis

I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me. — Alicia Machado

Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar.
(Walker, there is no road. The road is made as you walk.) — Antonio Machado

Do not be afraid to get close to your opponent. The closer you are, the more you will learn. — Manuel Dos Reis Machado

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced. — Antonio Machado

Truthfully, I despise hotels. I've had such better experiences staying at people's houses and guesthouses; it's so much more comfortable and homey. — Rob Machado

I got my first flash of titties from a Venezuelan hooker. — Cristian Machado

I dreamt
marvellous error!
that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. — Antonio Machado

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love. — Antonio Machado

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true. — Antonio Machado

Whatever happened billions of years ago, that's what were we come from. For people who have hate and anger towards each other just because they've been socially conformed or socially ... conditioned to their particular country, doesn't mean that you're not like everyone else in the rest of the world and doesn't mean you should go around hating everybody. — Cristian Machado

To me it hit home when the US took away the pledge of allegiance from the kids in school. People that migrate to come to this country can't learn to love a flag that means universal freedom no matter where you come from, you can come here to try and have a better life. — Cristian Machado

A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera. — China Machado

One of the roles of man is to shut his eyes and keep them shut to see if he can continue into the night of his old age the dream curtailed in the night of his youth. — Machado De Assis

All our efforts must tend towards light. — Antonio Machado

To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. — Machado De Assis

We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct takes over your capability to really think things through. — Cristian Machado

If it were not for me, the Gracies would be selling Bananas in Largo do Machado! — Carlson Gracie

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be
forged as you walk. — Antonio Machado

Has my heart gone to sleep?
Have the beehives of my dreams
stopped working, the waterwheel
of the mind run dry,
scoops turning empty,
only shadow inside?
No, my heart is not asleep.
It is awake, wide awake.
Not asleep, not dreaming
its eyes are opened wide
watching distant signals, listening
on the rim of vast silence — Antonio Machado

You'd be surprised how cold you get in the water, especially surfing a place like Pipeline. If the tradewinds are blowing, it gets chilly and sometimes you don't catch a wave for an hour. — Rob Machado

He had found in himself the perfect, undeniable case of insanity. He possessed wisdom, patience, tolerance, truthfulness, loyalty, and moral fortitude - all the qualities that go to make an utter madman. — Machado De Assis

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't. — Antonio Machado

I think I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world. I travel around looking for the best waves and appreciate it every second. — Rob Machado

If you're pop and you don't talk about all the pretty things in life and having sex, then you're not really pop. — Cristian Machado

Pathmaker, there is no path;
You make the path by walking,
By walking you make the Path — Antonio Machado

Nothing could happen to me in the water that would make me want to go on the beach and fight someone. That's just not how I do things. — Rob Machado

It seems like the powers that be are really trying to separate everything and really divide the genres and divide the trends. If you're metal and you don't sound like Slayer would sound now, then you're not metal. If you're punk rock and you don't sound like and preach about what The Sex Pistols would have preached about back in the day, then you're not really punk rock. — Cristian Machado

I have always done things that made me happy. I work with people I like, and I do the job I like. I only see people who I like to be with. I have led a wonderful life. — China Machado

Your footsteps are the road, wanderer, and nothing else
there is no road, it is born of walking
and looking back, you gaze upon the path
to which you never shall return
there is no road, wanderer
only wakes upon the sea — Antonio Machado

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human. — Antonio Machado

You do not choose what your mission is; it will come to you when you are ready! — Carlos Machado

There he is, bent over the page, with a monocle in his right eye, wholly devoted to the noble but rugged task of ferreting out the error. He has already promised himself to write a little monograph in which he will relate the finding of the book and the discovery of the error, if there really is one hidden there. In the end, he discovers nothing and contents himself with possession of the book. He closes it, gazes at it, gazes at it again, goes to the window and holds it in the sun. The only copy! At this moment a Caesar or a Cromwell passes beneath his window, on the road to power and glory. He turns his back, closes the window, stretches in his hammock, and fingers the leaves of the book slowly, lovingly, tasting it sip by sip ... An only copy! — Machado De Assis

Even after going to law school, following the footsteps of my father (an accomplished lawyer and judge at the time); I realized that the suit would never replace the kimono! — Carlos Machado

What the poet is searching for
is not the fundamental I
but the deep you. — Antonio Machado

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction. — Alicia Machado

My goal is to replicate prosperity with integrity. — Carlos Machado

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. — Antonio Machado

You can't worry about ageing because that's the worst thing. If you start, then you just keep finding more things you don't like, and then you're finished. There are a lot of things I could have done to my face, but it would never stop. — China Machado

I've always been a big supporter of the Surfrider Foundation. I started my own foundation, Rob Machado Foundation, which focuses on environmental education for the little people of the world. — Rob Machado

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on. — Rob Machado

Observe now with what skill, with what art, I make the biggest transition in this book. Observe: my delirium began in the presence of Virgilia; Virigilia was the great sin of my youth; there is no youth without childhood; childhood presupposes birth; and so we arrive, effortlessly, at October 20, 1805, the date of my birth. — Machado De Assis

I think there's a lot of great beliefs in the Buddhist religion, I think there's a lot of great beliefs in the Christian religion, I think there's a lot of great beliefs in no religion. It just depends on how you feel on the inside. — Cristian Machado

I've been very lucky, getting to travel the world with professional photographers. I'd grab their equipment, get a few lessons, and start firing shots. — Rob Machado

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves. — Antonio Machado

I cook the food of Macau, my roots and soul food. — China Machado

Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age. — China Machado

On the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took with him five revolvers, seven bags of gold, and five friends, still in their pajamas. — Joan Didion

I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse. — China Machado

The deepest words
of the wise man teach us
the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
or the sound of the water when it is flowing. — Antonio Machado

A man is a man in every part of the world. It has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the culture and education that each man has received since he was a child, in his home. It has to do with how he was raised. — Alicia Machado

Some actions are even baser than the people who commit them. — Machado De Assis

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking. — Antonio Machado

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it. — Antonio Machado

I am recording my first CD in Spanish and preparing myself for the next stage of my career. — Alicia Machado

Dream-travelers, there is no path, paths are made by dreaming. — Antonio Machado