Ana Castillo Quotes

I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

Ana Castillo

• Book
• Reality
• Serious

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Christian
  • Spirit
  • Reaction

• I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Joy
  • Socks

• I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Think
  • Care

• What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Artists

• My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked for the Canadian Penitentiary Service.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Service
  • First
  • National

• Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Future
  • Science
  • Fear

• I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • God
  • Stop
  • Day

• Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Life
  • Family
  • Education

• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Tennis

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was true or what wasn't true in their minds. We were just presented with the information that was around and pretty much allowed - though, I mean, we knew how they felt. We knew they didn't go to church. So obviously that had an effect.

  

  Tad Williams
  • True
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • World
  • Freedom

• There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Space
  • Woman
  • Enjoy

• If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Film
  • Right
  • Timing

• The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Place
  • Soldiers
  • Depend

• Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Miss
  • Type
  • Maybe

• Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Change
  • Famous
  • Selling

• You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological.

  

  John Barrowman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. ... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Relationship
  • Sensation

• In all our pictures, we had an antagonist who becomes the good guy, and the underdog fulfills his quest.

  

  Arthur Rankin, Jr.
  • Good
  • Guy

• I noticed in America that if you write a book of any kind, you're made to be the representative of all the issues that might surround it.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Book
  • America
  • Write

• I think a playful critique is good for all of us, and that's basically how I see satire functioning. But I'm not interested in a kind of contemptuous satirical vision; I try always, even when I'm knowingly being satirical, to also be humane, but I mean, let's face it: there's plenty in American life to make fun of, and we all participate in it.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Life
  • Good
  • American

• I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.

  

  Ana Castillo
  • Book
  • Reality
  • Serious