Maricielo Vivas Quotes & Sayings

You think you are reading proof, whereas you are merely reading your own mind; your statement of the thing is full of holes & vacancies but you don't know it, because you are filling them from your mind as you go along. Sometimes
but not often enough
the printer's proof-reader saves you
& offends you
with this cold sign in the margin: (?) & you search the passage & find that the insulter is right
it doesn't say what you thought it did: the gas-fixtures are there, but you didn't light the jets — Mark Twain

Knowledge from experience: the heart goes blind because the need is stronger than anything else. Your ego is blind, your id is eager. It will get to the point of smashing everything. When there is a danger from outside, you bolt, but when the danger comes from inside, how can you bolt? The danger from inside is that complicated thing, the love of the wolf, the complicity that attaches us to that which threatens us. — Helene Cixous

I hear them n-ggas talkin sh-t, but there ain't that much that they can do. — Wiz Khalifa

Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together. — Robert Browning

You need to believe in your passion, no matter how stupid or insane that might make you look to the rest of the world. — Jason Ellis

Without an audience, all your dreams will not come true at all, because you need an audience to write new songs and continue to do music. — Rokia Traore

I just love baseball; it's one of my favorite sports. — Ty Simpkins

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that. — Al Franken

I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met. — Talib Kweli

Faces are tricky unless you can connect up when and where you'd seen them. — Agatha Christie

For just a moment in time, we were just a boy and a girl, running and laughing in the rain on our wedding day. — Mia Sheridan

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government. — Christine Quinn