Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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• There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • American
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• Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

  

  Beau Bridges
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  • Listen

• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Democracy
  • Ignorance

• I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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  • Generation
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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
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• I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Writing
  • History
  • Education

• I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Imagination

• One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Words
  • Imagination

• The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • History
  • Man
  • Reality

• I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
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• There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • American
  • History

• Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • History
  • Commitment

• There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • History
  • New
  • New York

• We are wiser than we know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Know
  • Wisdom
  • Wiser

• History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • History
  • Best
  • Find

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• History is more interesting than most people think.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • People
  • History
  • Interesting

• Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Power
  • Wisdom

• I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

  

  Alan Furst
  • History

• I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Remember
  • Books
  • Paper

• All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods, which I have, find it difficult to turn down jobs. If I turn anything down my stomach turns over. I feel sick. It feels like gambling.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Time
  • Long
  • Sick

• I was slightly starstruck by Justin Bieber! I mean, he is cute!

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Cute

• I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Sorry
  • Playing
  • I Hope

• Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • History
  • Wisdom
  • Imagination