Esmeralda Santiago Quotes

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

Esmeralda Santiago

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• Cadences

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• Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Grandmother

• I think what hurt me all along was the label of 'war-time pitcher.' I've always resented that.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Time
  • War
  • Think

• Once I came to acting, it was almost a thing where there weren't enough hours in the day to work on stuff because I was so passionate about it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Work
  • Day
  • Acting

• My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Mother
  • Way
  • Find

• There are always tons of names on a movie of people that didn't actually do anything on that film. I feel bad for the people that busted their ass because they get the same credit as someone who did nothing. It's kind of a weird thing.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Bad
  • Movie

• There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.

  

  Auberon Waugh
  • People
  • World
  • Sabotage

• The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Book
  • Think
  • Laugh

• I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Human being
  • Favor
  • Animal Rights

• We invite people in the West End to come find out how you can be a part and find out how you can make the neighborhood the best place to live.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • People
  • Invite
  • West End

• The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Christian
  • Lose
  • Advantage

• Last word in lonesome is me.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Word
  • Lonesome

• When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Night

• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Chance
  • Drawback
  • Hesitancy

• When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions, the desire for vindications, the paranoia, and the projection are bottled in there, along with all the excesses of envy, desire for revenge, all the hypochondriacal responses, rituals, defenses, and the twin obsessions with sex and money. It other words, the stuff of great books.

  

  Betsy Lerner
  • Money
  • Soul
  • Author

• I would rather have a player who has mastered two or three moves than to try to teach him six or seven.

  

  Norm Sloan
  • Player
  • Master
  • Moves

• The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

  

  Bernard Berenson
  • Artist
  • Humanity
  • Sorrows

• I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Voices
  • Wondered
  • Sorrows