Sandra Cisneros Quotes

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

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• A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Up
  • Never
  • Child

• England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Power
  • America
  • True

• I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Music
  • More
  • Something

• Yes, I'm a 'Twi-hard.' I became obsessed. Absolutely obsessed. I didn't watch television, I didn't go to the cinema. My friends would ring and say: 'What are you doing?' And I would say: 'I've just got to finish this chapter.'

  

  E. L. James
  • Friends
  • Television
  • Finish

• Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Grumpy

• Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Work
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

  

  Kara Walker
  • World
  • Real
  • Space

• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • World
  • You
  • Nothing

• It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Television

• There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Job
  • Hope
  • Republican

• When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Different
  • Play
  • Thought

• Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Sea

• Thou art I, I am Thou,Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Art

• If I die, then I die. And if I don’t, then I don’t. Right now I feel good. I am aware that in some of my recent photos I look somewhat unhealthy, but that’s what illness can do. I’m not going to worry about that, I’ll rest when I’m dead.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Good
  • Die
  • Rest

• That's the unpredictable part, and that's what worries every coach: Protect the football. That's why, when you go into a ballgame, you may be favored, but there's no guarantee you're going to win it.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Why
  • May
  • Football

• You really get your sense of women, to begin with, from your mom.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Women
  • Mom

• It's very difficult to have any kind of romantic feelings for a movie where you know exactly what's going to happen in the first five minutes.

  

  Joe Swanberg
  • Movie
  • Romantic

• The first time I ever acted was in 'The Glass Menagerie' in high school, and my first line was, 'I didn't know Shakespeare had a sister.'

  

  Bill Hader
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I guess I'm lucky in that I started working very young in all three of the mediums. I started in stage first, and then I moved into film, also very young, and when I did 'Taxi,' for instance, it was live in front of an audience but also filmed; that was a fun combination.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Live
  • Fun

• I have...a terrible need...shall I say the word?...of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Night

• Any actress will tell you, when you've been given a starring role in the initial run of a show, you want to be getting the standing ovations every night, not just on review night.

  

  Martine McCutcheon
  • Night

• Whether I'm going out for the night, or during the day, I love putting on something that pops and makes you feel comfortable.

  

  Joe Jonas DNCE
  • Night

• Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects, Ceaseless, insistent. The grasshopper's horn, and far-off, high in the maples, The wheel of a locust leisurely grinding the silence Under a moon waning and worn, broken, Tired with summer.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Night
  • Silence
  • Summer

• One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Night
  • Accounts
  • Presses