Sandra Cisneros Quotes

I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them mice. They are like my naguales kindred animal spirits. They follow me. I have literally stepped off of a plane in Phoenix and gotten my bag and stepped out on the curb and they'll be a big desert rat walking right in front of me.

Sandra Cisneros

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• There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • You
  • Simple

• Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Cricket

• I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Live
  • Fear

• I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Today
  • Parents
  • Person

• Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Need
  • Clothes

• I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Home
  • House

• I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Kingdom

• You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.

  

  Xenophon
  • Victory
  • Strength
  • Greatest

• Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

  

  Vernon Duke
  • Why
  • New York
  • Autumn

• I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • Good
  • Character

• Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Political
  • Strong
  • Powerful

• Abraham Lincoln is my name And with my pen I wrote the same I wrote in both hast and speed and left it here for fools to read.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Name
  • Read
  • Speed

• Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• For just experience tells; in every soil,That those that think must govern those that toil.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Experience

• I look in your eyes I realize what you've sold meis love in a vacuum. Love in a vacuum.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Eyes

• My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

  

  Bobby McFerrin
  • Up
  • Father
  • Growing

• One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Good
  • Women
  • Money

• When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.

  

  Charles Wagner
  • God
  • Men
  • Feeling

• When I was at graduate school in London, I began working at NBC News, which had a thriving documentary unit.

  

  Leslie Cockburn
  • School

• When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.

  

  America Ferrera
  • American
  • Mother
  • Holiday

• I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

  

  Carl Erskine
  • Success
  • Throwing

• Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.

  

  Michael Herr
  • People
  • Animal
  • Vietnam

• I don't like to go into subways, because I always see them mice. They are like my naguales kindred animal spirits. They follow me. I have literally stepped off of a plane in Phoenix and gotten my bag and stepped out on the curb and they'll be a big desert rat walking right in front of me.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Spirit
  • Animal
  • Walking