Mocho Quotes & Sayings

I've been more places by accident than most people have been on purpose. — Alberta Hunter

To this day, when I say that I went to the American Academy, people are very impressed. The reputation of the school has always been fantastic. — Don Rickles

I want you to see me
and I know that I've never known
how to make myself visible before. — Darshana Suresh

I am a novelist turned temporary adventurer, and I chose to write television, movies and plays for much the same reason that Henry Morgan selected the Spanish Main for his peculiar - and not dissimilar - sphere of operations. — Gore Vidal

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. — Clarence Darrow

Mocho was a Spanish word that meant maimed or referred to something that had been lopped off like a stump. To call Homer el mocho was, essentially, to call him "Stumpy" or "the maimed one."
It doesn't sound particularly flattering, but among Spanish speakers the giving of nicknames is tantamount to a declaration of love. Things that would sound insulting outright in English were tokens of deep affection when said in Spanish. — Gwen Cooper

If there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me. — Jerry Fodor

So, yeah, the psychopath might cry when his dog dies and you think that's misplaced because he doesn't cry when his daughter dies." I — Jon Ronson

Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

There were three of them, all with rapiers, and she had only a dagger. It would have been a wretchedly uneven fight, if she were human.
It was still a wretchedly uneven fight; it was just uneven in her favor. — Rosamund Hodge

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory. — Mahmoud Darwish

The opinion of the public is sacred. The director is a cook who merely offers different dishes to them and has no right to insist they react in a particular way. A film is just a projection of light, completed only when it crosses the gaze of the audience[ ... ] — Werner Herzog

Let China's earth, enrich'd with colour'd stains,
Pencil'd with gold, and streak'd with azure veins,
The grateful flavour of the Indian leaf,
Or Mocho's sunburnt berry glad receive.'
MRS. BARBAULD. — Elizabeth Gaskell