Hector Tobar Quotes

What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our reality. And, so, we have to work even harder as writers against this tide of silliness, against this tide of superficiality, against this horrible Greek chorus on Twitter where everyone is insulting each other and now we have an insulter-in-chief, who's risen to the presidency by insulting people.

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• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Authority
  • Separate

• A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Job
  • Nice

• I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Never

• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Believe
  • Real

• You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Children
  • Book
  • Childhood

• When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • People
  • Good
  • Good People

• Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Think
  • Wise

• I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Politics
  • United States

• I remember my father, when I said I was going down to Little Rock to work for Governor Clinton's run for president, he thought maybe somebody needed to check the medication cabinet. He thought somebody was playing around with it. He had never heard of him, he said. I said, 'Well, I think he's going to be the next President of the United States.'

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Father

• Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Serious
  • Eye

• I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Like
  • Fan
  • Big

• I should think wrestling is the most positive thing in the world. The fact is, behind the scenes, there's stuff that goes on that's bush-league. It's laughable.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • World
  • Positive
  • Wrestling

• We need smarter, 21st-century budget guardrails that would gradually trim the size of Washington in order to spur private investment, create jobs, and boost the income of hard-working Americans on Main Street.

  

  Kevin Brady

• With any sort of minority, issues of ostracization or misrepresentation are clearly rampant. It's just so deeply rooted in our culture, and there are so many levels that it trickles down from.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • Culture

• In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Country

• I'd love to run for office, but it requires such knowledge.

  

  Joanne Woodward
  • Knowledge

• Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Space
  • Sick
  • Moderns

• I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Blame
  • Ideal
  • Promoting

• I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Fun
  • Transformation
  • Busy

• What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our reality. And, so, we have to work even harder as writers against this tide of silliness, against this tide of superficiality, against this horrible Greek chorus on Twitter where everyone is insulting each other and now we have an insulter-in-chief, who's risen to the presidency by insulting people.

  

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