Achy Obejas Quotes

Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

Achy Obejas

• Nature
• Creatures
• Offspring

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • People
  • Up
  • Religious

• I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Time
  • Think

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Start
  • Tough
  • Losing

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Inspiration

• If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Lose
  • Terms

• I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Children
  • Past

• What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Done
  • Career
  • Year

• You know, the Bible is so clear. Go to Genesis chapter nine and you will find the death penalty clearly stated in Genesis chapter nine... God ordains the death penalty!

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • God
  • Death
  • Bible

• I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Years
  • Jerusalem

• The first thing I do is I check my emails and my texts. I guess I shouldn't feel guilty about it at this point; it's kind of the norm. Sometimes I'll bounce around Twitter. And if I have time, I'll catch up on the news, usually on 'Huffington Post' or 'Salon.'

  

  Randall Park
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Interesting
  • Like
  • Things

• Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Time
  • History
  • Mythology

• Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.

  

  Gary Owen
  • People
  • Black
  • White

• An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

  

  Nance O'Neil
  • Art
  • She
  • True

• My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Vegas
  • Lake

• 225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Done

• Words are women, deeds are men.

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Words

• Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Writing
  • Nature

• You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Extraordinary
  • Disposition

• Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.

  

  Achy Obejas
  • Nature
  • Creatures
  • Offspring