Monchito Quotes & Sayings

It is far wiser to ask for a question than an answer. When you think you have all the answers, it simply means you have run out of questions. — Leonard Jacobson

We need to see ourselves projected in other members of our species to, in turn, understand ourselves. Cinema, is that mirror. It is a bridge between the others and us. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Our feelings can quickly deceive us - a weakness our Enemy loves to exploit. He loves to approach us in the midst of a temptation, or in a time of spiritual defeat or depression, and tell us that if we really belonged to Jesus we would not feel this way. He tries to use our feelings to get us to doubt our faith. "Feelings," however, are the fruit of faith. They should never be its source. Around our church we say, "Don't feel your way into your beliefs; believe your way into your feelings. — J.D. Greear

. . . though if Fanshawe had not spoken in so unbecoming a way, Laurence would have liked to keep Carver out of it, as he knew the boy had a poor head for heights, which struck him as a grave impediment for an aviator. — Naomi Novik

This realization that Someone is living in us and through us is exactly how we plug into a much larger mind and heart beyond our own. — Richard Rohr

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life. — Chris Rock

I could see Sulla showing her the Cards of Providence, the cards that would one day form the spread that showed her my death. — Kami Garcia

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on! — R. Lee Ermey

I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show. — Andy Milonakis

I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms. — Darrell Hammond

Book. Candle. Nico. — Lili St. Crow

So much learning," one of my Jesuit teachers has said, "so little wisdom." To put it another way, a civilization does become more technologically skilled and more learned about science, and perhaps even a little smarter as well, when it is permitted to grow for hundreds of years and spread itself from pole to pole; but we also have more tools to turn out as badly as our ancestors said we might. — Charles Pellegrino

What begins as comedy ends as a triumphal march, wouldn't you say? — Roberto Bolano

I have come to a still, but not a deep center,
A point outside the glittering current;
My eyes stare at the bottom of a river,
At the irregular stones, iridescent sandgrains,
My mind moves in more than one place,
In a country half-land, half-water.
I am renewed by death, thought of my death,
The dry scent of a dying garden in September,
The wind fanning the ash of a low fire.
What I love is near at hand,
Always, in earth and air. — Theodore Roethke

Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of waves and the mewing of a distant gull. — Robert Breault