Sandra Cisneros Quotes

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

Sandra Cisneros

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• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Think
  • Never
  • Same

• I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Family
  • Respect
  • Poverty

• People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • People
  • Taken
  • Sometimes

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Change

• It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

  

  Edmund White
  • Real
  • Better
  • Successful

• Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Good
  • Children
  • Best

• Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Broken

• It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Something
  • Away
  • Arts

• Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Life
  • Great
  • Life Is Hard

• Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Power
  • Violence
  • Rules

• The international monetary system is the glue that binds national economies together.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Together

• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • America

• Style has become a crucial differentiating factor for most actors in the industry. I generally choose my look based on the character I essay. I research a lot on the Internet and pick something that would suit my face.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Character
  • Style

• Basically, I always wanted to be an author but went through all these other jobs while getting up the nerve to finally go for it with my writing! Thank goodness it worked; who knows what I might have done next?

  

  Claudia Gray
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Done

• I always considered programming as being like modern-day wizardry. You could think of things in your mind and then make them happen.

  

  Jeff Minter
  • Mind

• My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

  

  Jennifer Beals
  • Husband
  • Romantic

• When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Profound

• 'Fernwood 2-Night' didn't help me too much when it was first on.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Help
  • Night

• Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • World
  • Different
  • Dark

• I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

  

  Willy Ley
  • Ideas
  • Rivers

• I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Female
  • Fantasy
  • Historical