Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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• The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Prayer
  • Something
  • Whole

• Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Brazil

• I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Friends
  • Possible

• I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Great
  • Money
  • Future

• I need to meet people to be able to write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • People
  • Need
  • Meet

• My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Reading

• I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Wishes

• I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Rather

• Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Cooking
  • Breakfast

• Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Lies

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

  

  Yuri Andropov
  • Everything
  • Choice
  • Possible

• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • God
  • Evil

• Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Guy

• At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• You neither can nor should understand what it means.Listen, it comes without guitar,Neither in rags nor in any purple fashion.And there is nothing in it to comfort you.

  

  Donald Justice
  • Fashion
  • Purple

• Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Frame

• You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Failure

• You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome. You can't merely wing it and expect to keep up with them. Setting aside all the safety valves and pleasant distractions is the first way to send yourself the message that you're playing for keeps

  

  Seth Godin
  • Care
  • Firsts
  • Safety

• The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Woman
  • Laugh
  • Expansive