Sandra Cisneros Quotes
When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.
Sandra Cisneros
Quotes to Explore
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
Vance Havner
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If the constitution goes, I go.
Kamisese Mara
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
Ted Rall
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
G. Willow Wilson
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
Kara Swisher
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
Lance Loud
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If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
Carl Reiner
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I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.
Yayoi Kusama
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
Quintus Ennius
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Call waiting was, for me, that was like the best invention ever, because there was four kids in my family, and to get on the phone was impossible.
Maggie Carey
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We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.
Barack Obama
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Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.
Huston Smith
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash
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God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
Charles Wesley
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We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
Theophrastus
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You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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When your writing is unselfconscious, when it comes from your heart, that's when it's powerful.
Sandra Cisneros
