Laura Esquivel Quotes
Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.

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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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In a universe that's an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.
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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
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To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.
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Teaching girls to agitate over every problem implies that relationships, and people, can bend to our will.
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As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.
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It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.
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Many people think spending an hour or two in the kitchen is a waste of time. But it is a good investment in your spiritual development.