Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.

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• I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Work
  • Down
  • Test

• I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Food
  • Healthy
  • Order

• I am healthy and happy.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Happy
  • Healthy

• When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Up
  • Children
  • Grow

• I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.

  

  Vic Tayback
  • Young
  • Will
  • Anything

• I never wanted to return to Hollywood because Hollywood people and the fakeness - very artificial and not dear to my heart. After I lived in the Midwest, and I learned what sincere, real people were all about, I never wanted to go back.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • People
  • Real
  • Heart

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Existence
  • Poet
  • Philosopher

• Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Soul
  • Pretty
  • Small

• I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Time
  • Move
  • Dallas

• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Spirit
  • Humor
  • Wit

• There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wall

• When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.

  

  Warren Moon
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Sometimes
  • Fails
  • Succeeds

• The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Relationship
  • Say
  • Weather

• Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!Not for him who has died full of honor and years!Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • High
  • Honor
  • Sky

• They do a lot of cutting, back screens and stuff like that. We weren't ready to handle the back screens and all the cuts. ... They are a well-coached team, and it shows.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Team
  • Cutting
  • Screens

• I don't know if it's a stare or if it's something I do with my eyes when I'm really focused in on someone or something. Apparently it comes out every now and then.

  

  Michael Trevino

• We've improved the machine, found some good tires and I think I've improved my riding as well over these past two days.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Good
  • Past
  • Improvement

• Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Earth
  • Singing
  • Deep

• It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Past
  • Taken