Mora Quotes & Sayings

When you go to a film festival as an audience member, it's so much fun. But when you bring your own film there, you carry so much stress and excitement. — Mora Stephens

I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text. — Pat Mora

If cruelty is no longer declared unlawful, but instead is applied as a matter of policy, it alters the fundamental relationship of man to government. It destroys the whole notion of individual rights. The Constitution recognizes that man has an inherent right, not bestowed by the state or laws, to personal dignity, including the right to be free of cruelty. It applies to all human beings, not just in America - even those designated as 'unlawful enemy combatants.' If you make this exception the whole Constitution crumbles. — Alberto J. Mora

I write because I am curious. I am curious about me. — Pat Mora

Art is free, but of course you have to be alert to catch it when it comes onto the canvas. I don't choose the ideas, they choose me. I don't wait for them. They come without my permission! — Mirka Mora

Seawrack is singing in the place that lies beyond this place. Listen there, and you cannot help but hear her." With her I sang a few more words in the language of those whom Mora had once called the People of That Town. "'In our small house with shining windows, I waited till the tide brought your wreck through. Lie here beside me in the darkness. I'll wake to life the corpse I say is — Gene Wolfe

I usually begin a poem in longhand. I like to sit where I have a nice view, ideally, although I worked on haiku this weekend at an airport. I'm not one to romanticize inspiration. I try to get to the work. — Pat Mora

Yeah, and we could fly in on dragons and release a cloud of sugar plum fairies to tiptoe in an get the watch. — Mora Early

I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information. — Pat Mora

These are the best things I've ever had in my mouth! — Mora Early

Who am I, Joshua? Name me. — Mora Early

Told you to get him a bell. — Mora Early

Good is the mora that makes all sure. — George Herbert

If it wasn't the Tai Mora, who would we fight? Ourselves? The Dhai? The Dorinah? Always another face, always the same face. — Kameron Hurley

It's not stealing, it's retrieving. — Mora Early

Her name was Mora ... and she was waiting. — M.L. LeGette

Are you sad?", asked Blue
"Not yet, a long time ago."
"Those are the opposite.", said Blue
"Not really.", Mora said. — Maggie Stiefvater

Don't be coy, Joshua. No matter how much money the other men here have, they can't buy what you've gotten for free. — Mora Early

Art is the child of imagination and gives life. — Mirka Mora

I have a deep attachment to the natural world. It's a major influence on my writing, and as I look out over the wonderful snow-covered Santa Fe hills, I'm grateful for every day that I live here. — Pat Mora

The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend on superior minorities. — Gonzalo Fernandez De La Mora

How are things in Glocca Mora this fine day? — Yip Harburg

I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able to move back and forth between Spanish and English, and I incorporate both languages in my books. — Pat Mora

I don't appreciate the disrespect, because I've been playing hurt for a guy who won't respect you. I don't deserve it ... It's time for me to move on. — Melvin Mora

The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors. — Mora Stephens

The old man sang for a while, and Mora felt in her head the beginning of a long siege. A wilderness had crept up around a walled town, and the darkness of old woods and far-off places began to grow then, even within sight of where men walked together.
By this she meant in her heart that all the useless things one remembers well just before waking and forgets just after were in fact very important and perhaps all that stood now between herself and oblivion. — Jesse Ball

I like developing characters who I find to have interesting psychology. Like politics and sex, but I'm really looking at bigger social problems that interest me, and that I can obsess over for a while. — Mora Stephens

As long as I keep fighting every day, I know my dreams will happen. Most often, our dreams will not unfold exactly the way we expect them to, but if we keep working hard, our dreams WILL happen as long as we BELIEVE in them and in ourselves. This is called having faith, and it is a very important component of success!"-Naima Mora — Naima Mora

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual. — Pat Mora

Your Texas is no different than my Texas. — Pat Mora

It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has lived for so long with these characters, sometimes for years. — Pat Mora

Don't be ridiculous. Brussels sprouts are awful. Jail is just jail. — Mora Early

If we're trying to excite young people about reading, we need to be experiencingbookjoy ourselves so that we have references to make. It's important to be able to say, "You know, I read the most wonderful poem the other day. Let me tell you about it." — Pat Mora

Well, I can hardly lick champagne off your dazzling personality, now can I? — Mora Early

I was told the men who found me searched for my companion, Nan," Bridget said, the hint of a question in her voice. "Aye, they did." Mora began to braid Bridget's hair. "If they couldnae find her, lass, she wasnae there." "So strange, isnae it? Where would she go? As I see it, she had but two choices when the thieves attacked. She either died with the others or fled." "If she had fled, Jankyn would have been able to see that and followed her trail." "It was dark. He may have missed whate'er trail she left." "Nay. Jankyn could track a wee mousie in the dark. But, it wasnae so verra dark, was it? Moon was full. — Hannah Howell

The TARDIS can look like whatever it wants. — Mora Early

Nd I smile
and know
why people write music and paint and dance, lifted as if they can fly,
because this ache
crashing inside
needs to be free.
sometimes, love
becomes a melody
others hum for years. — Pat Mora

The quality of a society depends on its capacity to produce eminent personalities. — Gonzalo Fernandez De La Mora

Writers are always diverse on the inside. — Pat Mora

I think the story only really comes alive on the set. — Mora Stephens

If Jim Mora loses his job with the Falcons, it most likely will be because of wins and losses. Problem is, when you work for such an image-conscious owner and in the most fickle of sports towns, random acts of dumbness tend to shrink a guy's margin for error. — Jeff Schultz

I want children who feel embarrassed because they speak Spanish to realize that there are places where the beautiful Spanish they speak is an asset. — Pat Mora

Hiding behind such sacred terms as human rights and distributive justice, politicians and intellectuals alike have perpetrated a gargantuan ruse on humankind: they have convinced us that mass homogeneity is more essential for the betterment of society than is individual initiative, and they have adorned this dubious assumption with assurances that by leveling all distinctions between human beings, collective peace and unity will result as a matter of course, just as water runs downhill or the cart follows the ox. — Gonzalo Fernandez De La Mora

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me — Pat Mora

Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're going to expect me to say that I would love to see more books by Native American authors and African-American authors and Arab-American authors. But when a teacher or librarian says this to publishers, it can have a profound effect. — Pat Mora

There is no equality without coercion. — Gonzalo Fernandez De La Mora