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

• I went to what is known as, and was at that time, too, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In fact, because of the lack of public school facilities, I began there. I began boarding school at the high school level; in fact, a year below the high school level.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.

  

  Evelyn Anthony
  • America
  • Failure
  • Problems

• The Blossoms had gotten so we were working seven days a week, three or four sessions a day, which was literally killing us, physically. With the instruments that the musicians play, they can do that, but not with us using our voices.

  

  Darlene Love

• Soccer was my first love, and I enjoyed playing on the left wing until a groin injury forced me out of the game in 2008.

  

  Chad le Clos
  • Game
  • Soccer

• I cannot even picture myself retiring. What would I do? I'll always be doing something, asking somebody questions, even if there weren't a book.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Book
  • Retiring

• 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