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

• He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Life
  • Work
  • Night

• 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

• The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Journalism

• 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

• I didn't get a phone call from Bill Clinton before I jumped in the race ... maybe it's because I hadn't given money to the foundation or donated to his wife's senate race.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Wife
  • Foundation

• 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

• There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Family
  • Woman
  • Same

• 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

• Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Life
  • Time

• Well, I think that you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective. Answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion, because this is something that obviously the country wrestles with.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Question
  • Perspective

• I've had every known chemical-cocaine, booze-and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • World

• 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

• What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.

  

  John Burnside
  • World
  • Words
  • Wind

• We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington
  • Desert
  • Forest

• When you sit there, and you sing the chorus - and then you look at each other, and everybody has the hair standing up on their arms - then everybody knows you've stumbled onto something.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Sing
  • Arms
  • Chorus

• Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm... not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that they all with one consent watch for our salvation.

  

  John Calvin
  • Angel
  • Salvation
  • Faithful

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

  

  Carmen Boullosa
  • Angel
  • Desert
  • Arms