Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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• I feel nowadays a lot of bands can be too overly produced. There's something about the leather pants and bare bodies and Axl Rose running back and forth on a stage and going crazy. I love all that.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Crazy
  • Feel
  • Stage

• We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Guy

• I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I love sports.' What I also get are letters from a whole bunch of moms saying, 'My daughter is awesome,' and, 'My daughter is a great daughter.'

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Girl
  • Sports
  • Awesome

• Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Opportunity
  • Health
  • Quality

• I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doing the best I could, and no matter what happened, the end of the day was going to be a good end.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Good
  • Today
  • Day

• During my time at high school and university in Kreuzlingen and St. Gallen, I traveled around Europe looking at art, visiting artists, studios, galleries and museums.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • School
  • Art

• I'd much rather be liked because people realize that I'm standing up for myself.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • Life
  • American
  • America

• I grew up watching the 'People's Choice Awards.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Up
  • Choice

• As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Me
  • Impression
  • Ornaments

• People think you have pressure when you are young. It's the other way round, actually.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Think
  • Pressure

• See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn't seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Time
  • Age
  • Dream

• I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Truth
  • Dying

• We should be firing bad teachers.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Bad
  • Should
  • Teachers

• Our most important aim is to develop definite personalities in our cartoon characters. We don't want them to be just shadows, for merely as moving figures they provoke no emotional response from the public. We invest them with life a caricature of life.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Important
  • Moving

• There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • World
  • Brother

• And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.'

  

  Ayn Rand
  • God
  • Men
  • Earth

• Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit and true, he will integrate it by a history implicit and false.

  

  Geoffrey Barraclough
  • History
  • Integrating
  • Implicit

• Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in error thus to exclude the imaginary from my outlook upon facts. They desired to make me truthful; the tendency was to make me positive and sceptical. Had they wrapped me in the soft folds of supernatural fancy, my mind might have been longer content to follow their traditions in an unquestioning spirit.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Spirit

• He's had a lot of success pitching in international competition, and that gives him an edge. I met him in Baltimore during their first series, and sitting on the bench with him before the game, I was impressed with his composure.

  

  Buck Martinez
  • Competition
  • Edge
  • Success pitching

• It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa