Mi Amiga Quotes & Sayings

[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured. — Diana Trilling

She was a dream that was seconds from becoming a nightmare, a present that was about to be taken back. — Karina Halle

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from. — Agnes Obel

I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better. — Tom Petty

The Fuhrer is always right. Every last citizen must say this. — Robert Ley

Honor the names that you bear, because someday you will have the privilege and the obligation of reporting to [your ancestors] (and your Father in Heaven) what you have done with their name. — George Albert Smith

He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was still a windbag — Harry Truman

In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive English but it is non-standard, "broken" English that happens to be efficient, eloquent, and communicates perfectly well even if it is breaking rules. — Elliott Colla

We're so determined to help those we love that we lose all perspective — Justin Somper