Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
-
We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
-
You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
-
I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
-
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
-
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
-
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
-
It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
-
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
-
I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
-
Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
-
Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
-
Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.
-
If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
-
Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
-
I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
-
My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, 'Hey did you know this?' And then I'll be like, 'Well, it is, like, my life. So yes, I did know that.' Or, 'That's not even true. I don't know where you read that.' I have Googled myself, yes. But my parents really have Google Alerts on me.
-
Europe must act quickly where it's needed and must, once and for all, let member states handle what is their exclusive domain.
-
It took a good deal of work behind the scenes to achieve this result and I'm glad we've got there.
-
Only God knows how much I love you.
