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.
Quotes to Explore
-
There is no 20-year period in American history when stocks lost money.
-
The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
-
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.
-
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
-
I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
-
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.
-
I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
-
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
-
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.
-
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
-
Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
-
There's a lot of history in Boston and a lot of history, obviously, in New York with all the championships.
-
I'm sure back in the Greek days or the Roman Empire days, when guys fought in arenas and were fighting lions, people were talking smack. Every era in history has someone talking smack. No way you can have talent and not proclaim your victory.
-
We are wiser than we know.
-
I think Nick Saban is the greatest college football coach in history over there in Tuscaloosa.
-
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
-
I love to play golf and watch movies in Tamil and Telugu whenever I get time.
-
If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.
-
Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.
-
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.
