Sandra Cisneros Quotes

My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always surprised at the kind of people that come to my readings. That they are such a mix of ages and colors. It looks like people spilling out of an elevator.

Sandra Cisneros

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• My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Age
  • Father
  • Religion

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • House
  • Green
  • Trees

• At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Time
  • American
  • House

• There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Fun
  • Now
  • Nobody

• I work a lot of hours, and in this business you really try to keep as busy as you possibly can. Sometimes when you really focus on kids in your free time you lose the husband and wife relationship to some degree. It's been a real focus for us to make sure we stay focused on us two.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Time
  • Work
  • Real

• There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Question
  • Mission
  • Linda

• I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Star
  • Behavior
  • Daring

• My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Time
  • Business
  • Game

• I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Paris
  • Bitter

• Bahrain 's margin of freedom is growing day after day as we head into the future with steady steps.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Future
  • Freedom
  • Growing

• CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • People
  • Work
  • Police

• I like being by myself.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Being

• I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Song

• I think D.C. has always been very, very vibrant for food. Like Boston in a way. Boston and D.C. were really the two cities that were the most active with their local chefs and their local food scene.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Think
  • Way
  • Food

• I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.

  

  Obie Trice
  • School
  • Style
  • Cats

• If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Die
  • Taken

• Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.

  

  Phillip E. Johnson
  • Truth

• For me, I've always found people who stand up and spritz themselves all over their clothes very odd. I'm a big bath addict, and I get up in the morning, and I have a big bath. But when I get out, and I'm still hot but fresh out of the bath, that's when I apply scent. I just have it on my bare skin; I never apply it to my clothes.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • People
  • Up
  • Morning

• Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• When I was growing up in the theater there were all these amazing girls telling me about the guy who broke their heart. And I was always wishing that it was me.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Guy

• My readers are as diverse as any group you will ever see. Something that booksellers always tell me. That they are always surprised at the kind of people that come to my readings. That they are such a mix of ages and colors. It looks like people spilling out of an elevator.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Age
  • Reading