Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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• I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • History
  • Mother

• If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.

  

  Manute Bol
  • God
  • Long
  • Kids

• I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Experience
  • Parents
  • Travel

• The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Job
  • Government
  • Famous

• Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Up
  • God
  • Art

• The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Politics
  • India
  • Vicious

• You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Work
  • Job
  • Relationship

• Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Success
  • Right

• Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • She
  • Hate
  • Along

• For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Father
  • Years
  • Railroad

• I always do something that I've never done before.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Done
  • Always
  • Never

• I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Love
  • Joy

• My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They have been very supportive of me.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Family
  • Point
  • Supportive

• I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Being

• There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Life
  • Alone

• I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • True
  • Education

• We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Thinking

• Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that morning, and Wanting to Count Things — like Roo's vests, and how many pieces of soap there were left, and the two clean spots in Tigger's feeder.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Morning

• We have a serious structural deficit problem. And it needs to be addressed. The president is trying to address it through reforms of Social Security, but the problem is there with other entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid.

  

  John W. Snow
  • Trying
  • Serious

• People all over the world now are following our election. And according to a new international poll that just came out, I think this came out a few hours ago, this is true, people in Canada want Barack Obama to be the next U.S. president. That's what they're saying. In Canada, yeah. That makes sense, because Obama has the support of Canada's anti-war voters, as well as Canada's black guy. He is very excited.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • World
  • War

• It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Church
  • Tragedies
  • Christian History

• If I could, I'd sing old French songs or American folk music, but I sure as hell can't do it as well as Mississippi John Hurt - no way in hell am I getting near that!

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Music
  • American
  • Hurt

• The bottom line is a record of ideas. The bottom line is a plan for how to get this country back on track. It's not about attendance - it's about goals and opportunity to move this nation forward.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Country
  • Opportunity
  • Goals

• The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa