Nilda Quotes & Sayings

I have learned that each and every piece of cloth embodies the spirit, skill, and personal history of an individual weaver. . . . It ties together with an endless thread the emotional life of my people. — Nilda Callanaupa Alvarez

Motherfucker was like three hundred years old, but because he had a car and a record collection and foto albums from his Vietnam days and because he bought her clothes to replace the old shit she was wearing, Nilda was all lost on him. — Junot Diaz

Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition. — Marshall McLuhan

We'd come to the same fork in the road I have seen scores of patients come to, the same place I'd seen Alice Hobson come to. We were up against the unfixable. But we were desperate to believe that we weren't up against the unmanageable. Yet short of calling 911 the next time trouble hit, and letting the logic and momentum of medical solutions take over, what were we to do? Between the three of us we had 120 years of experience in medicine, but it seemed a mystery. It turned out to be an education. — Atul Gawande

In the ten years since I had run away from home ... I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime. — W.C. Fields

See me in that new thing, bums is gaggin — Nicki Minaj

The most interesting thing about the idea of money is that it makes it possible to measure something in previous ages we couldn't be sure about, and that something is power. — Daniel Keys Moran

He who knows how to wait need make no concessions. — Sigmund Freud

We travel just to travel. — Che Guevara

We used to fight to the death but we tried the experiment, rolled the dice and like we got. — Anthony Kiedis

True friends are to people what lighthouses are to ships. No matter how stormy it gets, they stay put and light our way. — Julie-Anne

I have a pretty major problem with a language where one of the most common variables has the name $_ — Brian H. Hook

My decision not to eat animals anymore was paramount to my growth as a spiritual person. It made me aware of greed and made me more sensitive to cruelty. It made me feel like I was contributing to making the world better and that I was connected to everything around me. I felt like I was part of the whole by respecting every living thing rather than using it and destroying it by living unconsciously. Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself. — Portia De Rossi

Before we even swung onto 516 Nilda was in my brother's lap and he had his hand so far up her skirt it looked like he was performing a surgical procedure. When we were getting off the bus Rafa pulled me aside and held his hand in front of my nose. Smell this, he said. This is what's wrong with women. — Junot Diaz

My wife and I want to try swapping. We want to go to one of those key parties where you put your keys in a bowl. But we just want to upgrade our car. — Andy Kindler

Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve. — Kij Johnson

Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do anything. We could marry. We could drive off to the West Coast. We could start over. It's all possible but neither of us speaks for a long time and the moment closes and we're back in the world we've always known. — Junot Diaz

Good and evil always existed. I kind of expected that. — J.L. Weil