Juan Felipe Herrera Quotes
I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.
Quotes to Explore
-
Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat's Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
-
There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
-
Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
-
Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
-
Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
-
'Villain' is such a harsh word.
-
Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
-
Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
-
Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.
-
I'm always trying to push for women's rights.
-
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
-
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
-
Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless, unimportant, or vain, or good.
-
Each for himself is still the ruleWe learn it when we go to school-The devil take the hindmost, O!
-
I try not to repeat myself too often, but it's a gamble. 'Fred Claus' had three Oscar winners in it. No business - it was a bad movie.
-
But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.
-
I don't want to be a part of something I don't want to watch.
-
I had been thinking about social awkwardness and about people you meet who are not bad people - there is nothing wrong with them, but they are just a little bit awkward, and it makes you feel uncomfortable, and it makes you want to bring the encounter to an end. I thought, 'Is there a reason for that? What has contributed to their demeanour?'
-
The good thing about writing a novel is that you're creating an imaginary world and can take a break when you need to.
-
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
-
I give thanks that I am now rich, well and happy and that my financial affairs are in divine order. Every day in every way I am growing richer and richer.
-
During the later part of the 19th century, it was believed that a sound of change affected the whole of a language simultaneously: one sound system would smoothly develop into the next, and all words which contained a particular sound would be affected in the same way.
-
I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.
