Tafolla Quotes & Sayings

When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy. — David Ogden Stiers

Should the basic financial statements refer to the SI? No. The basic financial statements should not refer to or report on the supplementary information. — Charles Hall

But not all kids are exactly the same,
Even when they share the same name. — Christina Engela

Newspapers ascribe the word "climber" to any person who falls in the mountains or off a rock. To refer to anyone who falls in the mountains as ... a climber ... is as factual as to say that anyone who sits down at a piano is a pianist. — Pat Ament

The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for. — Terence McKenna

marked

Never write with pencil,
m'ija.
It is for those
who would
erase.
Make your mark proud
and open,
Brave,
beauty folded into
its imperfection,
Like a piece of turquoise
marked.

Never write
with pencil,
m'ija.
Write with ink
or mud,
or berries grown in
gardens never owned,
or, sometimes,
if necessary,
blood. — Carmen Tafolla

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures. — Mahatma Gandhi

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have slipped chile under your skin
secretly wrapped in each enchilada
hot and soothing
carefully cut into bitefuls for you as a
toddler
increasing in power and intensity as
you grew
until it could burn
forever — Carmen Tafolla

We could not have parliamentary sovereignty with a European Parliament. — Hugh Gaitskell

Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down. — Mike Birbiglia

Whut gempmums says an' what dey thinks is two diffunt things. — Margaret Mitchell