Carmen Boullosa Quotes

I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

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• When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Picnic

• In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Good
  • Story
  • Elements

• I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • High
  • Opinion
  • Need

• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Rights

• Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Thinking
  • Culture
  • Happiness

• I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Thinking
  • Cooking
  • Relaxing

• God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • God
  • Men
  • Science

• Men used to tell me how they used butter for sex, now they tell me how they’ve eliminated it from their diet.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Men
  • Sex

• Creative directors can be egocentric, they say. I decide; they shout at people and harass. I don't want that.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • People

• Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • Good
  • Running
  • Preparation

• With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.

  

  Linda Sue Park
  • Book
  • American
  • War

• I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended.

  

  Jensen Ackles
  • Girl

• Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Habit

• It's one thing to be talented, but the other thing is connections - with agents, with people; that's what makes a difference, and from the beginning, I've had wonderful representation.

  

  Elizabeth Wilson
  • People
  • Beginning

• The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • Help
  • Age

• Somehow, it soon seemed taken for granted by all three of them that the trip was a settled thing; and the Rat, though still unconvinced in his mind, allowed his good-nature to over-ride his personal objections.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn't impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Up
  • Good
  • Character

• Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.

  

  John Schlesinger

• Without clouds we wouldn't have rain. Without rain there is no water, no crops and no food for you and me. Humans would not exist without the sun, heat, water and oxygen from plants.

  

  Bill Nye
  • Food
  • Water
  • Sun

• In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Matter
  • Place

• I was an angel of the desert. In your arms I broke my wings.

  

  Carmen Boullosa
  • Angel
  • Desert
  • Arms