Sandra Cisneros Quotes
I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.
Sandra Cisneros
Quotes to Explore
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
O. Henry
For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.
Salma Hayek
Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off the outline.
Hallie Ephron
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Orson Welles
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?
Kate Christensen
If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.
Adam Grant
A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
Nancy McKeon
Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
Taylor Swift
History will treat me right.
Ralph Abernathy
Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
Zinedine Zidane
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.
Cat Stevens
It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.
Matt Emmons
It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act.
Raymond Pettibon
Black Flag
Actors, you have to wait for people to give you work, or you have to make your own stuff. But standup, I could just say, 'I want to do standup in 30 minutes,' and I can go do standup. Or I could just say, 'I want to do standup in a few weeks in this city.'
Hannibal Buress
There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
Deepak Chopra
I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.
Sandra Cisneros
