Maria Elena Velasco Quotes & Sayings

There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot. — Amy Ryan

The light is the color of brandy seeping. It has a taste. Your skin tastes it, like you're all over tongues. The taste is sugar-cane, slowly rotting, turning into the great god rum. It's always that magic hour those film-boys love to shoot down here. Always gold. — Catherynne M Valente

I've become a lantern bearer, lighting the path this country will take. — Nahoko Uehashi

The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement. [Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden. — Ai Weiwei

I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't — John McCain

The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse. There is no certainty that God actually did grant man dominion over other creatures. What seems more likely, in fact, is that man invented God to sanctify the dominion that he had usurped for himself over the cow and the horse. — Milan Kundera

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. — George Eliot

When people come up and give me a compliment ... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.' — Corrie Ten Boom

It's something like 70% of American adults are obese, and the rest of them are women on Ally McBeal. — Greg Giraldo

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad