Hector Tobar Quotes

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

Hector Tobar

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• I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Good
  • Character
  • Age

• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Life
  • Wise

• Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Pretty
  • Words
  • Thought

• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Speak

• I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Name

• Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Sad
  • Last
  • Walls

• A lot of people think I'm a vegan. I'm not.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Think
  • Vegan

• The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Nature
  • Hand
  • Photography

• It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he translates the words that he has used. And it would be fascinating to see a great director do his take on my work.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Work
  • Great
  • Song

• We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Fight
  • Now
  • Foot

• If I'm such a fucking menace? This shit doesn't make sense, B! It's all political. If my music is literal, then I'm a criminal. How the FUCK can I raise a little girl? I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to.

  

  Eminem
  • Music
  • Political
  • Girl

• A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Success

• Work, Mr. Burton. There’s nothing like work, for men and women. The one unforgivable sin is idleness.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.

  

  Lewis Mumford

• They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, 'Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3.' … WELL, THEN IT'S MINUS 3, ASSHOLE! I don't need to know what the weather was like if the conditions were perfect!

  

  Lewis Black
  • Up
  • Why
  • Today

• I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Work
  • Theatre

• Alternative accommodations is a $100 billion-plus category.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi

• We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Way
  • Forward

• Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Today

• To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were, one corner of the curtain that hides its mystery, and reveals, in a burst of delight which later and fuller understanding can hardly ever equal, one glimpse of the indefinite possibilities within.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Art
  • Understanding

• The global embrace of the Chilean miners had as much to do with the state of the planet as it did the fate of the trapped men. Every year, thousands of miners are trapped and die. Hundreds more are rescued. The world's press has no shortage of global good-news stories. Heroes abound if reporters and editors take the time to search.

  

  Jonathan Franklin
  • Stories
  • Trapped
  • Miners

• We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

  

  Hector Tobar
  • Art
  • Stories
  • Writers