Pura Quotes & Sayings

If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons. — Murray Pura

I'm still trying to figure out how to write about cancer and my family's experience with it. If I had been able to write 'The Pura Principle' back in those days, I'm positive it would have had no humor in it. Which means the story would have been false. — Junot Diaz

I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it'd be English in some weird way. — Juan Pablo Di Pace

Wait," I say. "Aren't soulmates supposed to be perfect? What if you find yours and shes not a virgin, not even a girl? What if he's a fixer upper? What if he has an STD? — Joey Comeau

Live your life like this. Constantly searching faces in the crowd, wondering which of them you can trust , which of them you can't. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

You're a pickpocket right? That's cool. But you don't do it for the money, do you?"
"Maybe the end." I said abruptly.
"The end?"
"What will happen to me in the end. What happens to people who live the way I do? That's what I'd like to know. — Fuminori Nakamura

Kissing Jack was dangerous, like drowning in something that tasted good. He was like the artery-clogging chocolate cake she couldn't resist, heaven in her mouth but hell on her heart. — Amanda Usen

People are worried about their bodies. They're worried about disease. They're worried about how they are able to get out and participate in the world. — John Scalzi

I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it. — Omar Sharif

She blew out of the Terrace sometime before Christmas to points unknown. The Gujarati guy told me when I ran into him at the Pathmark. He was still pissed because Pura had stiffed him almost two months' rent.
Last time I ever rent to one of you people.
Amen, I said. — Junot Diaz

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people. — Bernadette Peters

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge. — Charles Babbage

I think it's been confusing for people because I haven't had a linear career. — Selma Blair

Do only work that matters, and you will end up pleasing those who are important enough to care about it. — Jeffrey Fry

I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so. — Kevin Smith

It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise. — Billy Graham

You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia. — Werner Herzog

Christianity was not meant to be a weapon or an argument or a show of force or a political tool. Or an act of aggression or coercion. It was never meant to be a cause or a prop for a cause. Or something to pacify and make thousands go to bed happy and unthinking. It was meant to be a challenge, yes, but that challenge to a second life was meant to be laced with kindness. If someone forces you to choose between God is holy and God is love choose God is love because holiness without love translates into tyranny. — Murray Pura

I don't think I could have tackled 'The Pura Principle' until now. It takes me about twenty years to come to term with any difficult period in my life, to get enough of a grasp on it to fictionalize it. — Junot Diaz

Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now. — Orson Scott Card

I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things. — Jeremy Renner

Many have never risked losing the normalcy of their daily existence to gain the astonishing experience of having to see God come through or die. — Murray Pura