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

• 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

• 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

• I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

  

  Andy Summers The Police
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Moving

• To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.

  

  David Deutsch
  • Reality
  • Understanding

• All that you are attached to, all that you love, all that you know, someday will be gone. Knowing this, and that the world is your mind which you create, play in, and suffer from, is known as discrimination. Discriminate between the Real and the Unreal, the known is unreal and will come and go so stay with the Unknown, the Unchanging, the Truth.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • World
  • Mind
  • Real

• If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Words

• On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Special
  • Wrong
  • Roots

• Nicey nicey just doesn't do it for me.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Nicey

• Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking.

  

  Jesse L. Martin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Today

• 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