Violas Ventanas Quotes & Sayings

The real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle. — Naomi Shihab Nye

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down. — Zora Neale Hurston

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me. — Ryan Adams

The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly. — Thomas Malthus

Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do. — Nelson Mandela

Anyone who believes he has caught him in a fantastic lie is apt to find out that the fantastic story is the truth. And some unimportant statement, like just having bought an evening paper a half-hour ago, is the lie."

--On Orson Welles — Bernard Herrmann

There's no reason why you can't say "August Wilson, playwright" even though all of my work, every single play, is about black Americans, about black American culture, about the black experience in America. I write about the black experience of men, or I write about black folks. That's who I am. In the same manner that Chekhov wrote about the Russians, I write about blacks. I couldn't do anything else. I wouldn't do anything else. — August Wilson

The memorability of a fact is inversely proportional to its usefulness.

- Jason's Third Law — Jason Dias

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real. — John Green

those who win wars are those who write history. — Susan Dennard

Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts. — Deepak Chopra

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. — Mike Tyson