Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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• I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Reflection

• When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Want
  • Food
  • Hungry

• Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Business
  • Small
  • Positive

• If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Acting

• The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Age
  • Play
  • Mom

• Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Life
  • Good
  • War

• There's backlash about everything I do.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Everything
  • About
  • Backlash

• The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Business
  • Model
  • New

• At the end of the day, there's not a day that goes by without a mass shooting.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• My greatest inspiration is my mother, the bravest person I ever knew. She overcame incredible odds, worked while raising two kids, and made it all look incredibly simple. Even in her final days succumbing to cancer, she fought like a champion.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Kids
  • Mother
  • Inspiration

• Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.

  

  A. A. Milne

• See, there is a tendency to look at India as a country.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Country

• History is at once freedom and necessity.

  

  Antonio Gramsci
  • History
  • Freedom

• If you talk about Lindsay Lohan for four or five days a week, you really can't bear to talk about her on the weekends.

  

  Chelsea Handler

• My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Friends

• Our pop scene is among the best in the world because there are 300 languages spoken on the streets of London, compared with 200 in New York. Our diversity is our strength.

  

  Charles Hazlewood
  • World
  • Diversity

• The more I got into playing guitar, the more I enjoyed music, and the broader my listening became. The instrument itself became important to me, and I started messing around with classical guitar and took classical lessons.

  

  Alex Lifeson Rush
  • Music
  • Important
  • Listening

• Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me...

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Thing
  • Destroy
  • Loosing

• If you hang out with a bunch of sad sacks who think the world sucks and there's no possibility, you'll start to believe that. But if you hang out with people who think everything is possible and actually do the impossible on a regular basis, you will believe that, and you will be able to achieve that.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• I don't want to play forever. I want to give everything I can now and then walk away knowing I gave everything. The example I think of is Barry Sanders. He was such a great player, and he left when he was still on top. I want that to be me.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Great
  • Think
  • Player

• In Hell you'd be foolish to count on people displaying high standards of honesty. The same goes for earth.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • High
  • Earth

• A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa