Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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• Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Experience
  • American
  • Alien

• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Family
  • Black
  • Fans

• If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Money
  • Individual
  • Pay

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Time
  • Help
  • Law

• If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Talk
  • Oppression

• Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Children
  • Past

• I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Law
  • Enough
  • Sense

• I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Think
  • Funny

• I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • More
  • Writer

• The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Movies

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Success
  • Learn

• I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Good
  • Family
  • School

• The most pressure I felt was for the first 'Paranormal Activity,' because when it was released, whether it was going to be a hit or not, I knew it was going to be a life-altering event for me.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Life
  • Pressure
  • Hit

• The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • America

• Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one - none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance - to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Death

• Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Money
  • War
  • Society

• My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Work
  • Walking
  • Fearless

• If you go into a tournament thinking that you're not going to do anything, you might as well not be there because you won't achieve anything.

  

  Jamie Vardy
  • Thinking

• You strip from me the laurel and the rose!Take all! Despite you there is yet one thingI hold against you all, and when, tonight,I enter Christ's fair courts, and, lowly bowed,Sweep with doffed casque the heavens' threshold blue,One thing is left, that, void of stain or smutch,I bear away despite you … My panache.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Blue
  • Rose

• Does the hon. Gentleman accept that some of us oppose the agreement for reasons other than those that he has given? We believe that the agreement strengthens rather than weakens the border between the six and the 26 counties, and those of us who wish to see a United Ireland oppose the agreement for that reason.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • Believe
  • Wish
  • Gentleman

• At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • British
  • Commonwealth
  • White Nation

• They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Death
  • Separation