Tiente Quotes & Sayings

Okay. You're the best Apollyon there is."
He tipped his head to the side and arched a brow. "I'm the only Apollyon there is right now."
I grinned. "You're still the best. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Live, for a day will come when you will be happy and bless life — Alexandre Dumas

Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies. — Heather Schuck

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered. — Bob Barker

I tried to log on to the Obamacare website today. I don't think I'm doing it right. I lost 300 bucks playing Texas Hold 'Em. — Jay Leno

We're an adaptable species," she said, refusing to be stopped, "but it's wrong to inflict suffering just because your victim can endure it." "Learn — Octavia E. Butler

It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it. — Mahatma Gandhi

The shelter worker said, "This one hates everything and she doesn't know anything, and I hope you aren't planning on taking her outside ever because she's more like a bear than a dog, really, and unfortunately, she can scale a seven-foot-tall fence like the fucking Spider-Man." And we were like, "Sure, why not. — Allie Brosh

When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it's a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you. — Bill Henson

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition. — Emmanuelle Beart

All the good stuff is on the other side of tired. — Andre Agassi

When you were talking about the caste system, I was thinking about how Mexicans still have to come to terms with this in our own culture. We spoke earlier about the castas paintings that were made during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Mexico. The Spanish, establishing a form of racial apartheid, delineate the fifty-three categories of racial mixtures between Africans, Indians, and the Spanish. And they have names, like tiente en el aire, which means stain in the air; and salta otras, which means jump back; or mulatto, a word that comes from mula, the unnatural mating between the horse and the donkey. "Sambo" is now a racial epithet in the US, but it was first used as one of the fifty-three racial categories in the castas paintings. — Amalia Mesa-Bains