Sandra Cisneros Quotes

I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I hope this doesn't happen, but if something happened - my body of work is something I could rest on. I don't feel, "Oh God, I have to hurry up . . ."

Sandra Cisneros

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• In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Girl
  • Progress

• After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Years
  • New York
  • I Love

• I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • High
  • Think
  • Bill Of Rights

• Wit as an instrument of revenge is as infamous as art is as a means of sensual titillation.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Art
  • Revenge
  • Wit

• We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • History
  • Culture
  • Literature

• When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Together
  • Think
  • I Think

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Rock

• For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Day

• We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Past
  • Undo

• My mother was always supportive.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Mother
  • Always
  • Supportive

• We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Mind
  • End

• Televisa is the largest media company in the Spanish-speaking world, and the steps we have taken, which extend the tenure of our exclusive access to Televisa's premium Spanish-language telenovelas, sports, sitcoms, reality series, news programs and feature films, put Univision in a stronger competitive position.

  

  Randy Falco
  • World
  • Reality
  • Taken

• I like auditioning! A lot of people hate it, but I like it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • People
  • Hate
  • Like

• Make health care a right, not a privilege.

  

  Ed Pastor
  • Health
  • Care
  • Privilege

• I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Freedom
  • Just

• What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Father
  • Political
  • Small

• I was always in love with the idea of making music - and always wanted to be involved in either the creative side or the industry side.

  

  Amber Mark
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Side

• When he comes around. Do not tell him nothing. Do not make a sound. Cos if he knows we're there he might tear his heart out. And beat us to death with it.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Sound

• Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.

  

  Charissa Thompson
  • Mean
  • Comfortable
  • Feminism

• Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Different
  • Children
  • Opportunity

• I've come to some balance now and calmness. If anything happened to me and I got hit by a bus - I hope this doesn't happen, but if something happened - my body of work is something I could rest on. I don't feel, "Oh God, I have to hurry up . . ."

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Body
  • Feels
  • Balance