Octavio Paz Quotes
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.
Quotes to Explore
-
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
-
I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
-
The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
-
I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
-
When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
-
The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
-
The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
-
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
-
You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
-
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
-
That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
-
Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
-
Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
-
I made nothing happen very slowly.
-
I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
-
And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
-
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
-
I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.
-
I crossed the tracks and sought out White prey. I did this consciously, deliberately, willfully, methodically ... Rape was an insurrectionary act. It delighted me that I was defying and trampling upon the White man's law ... and that I was defiling his women ...
-
I've worked on movies that are being rewritten as you go, but you take so long and so much time doing it, that it's not really an issue knowing what's going to happen or how the movie is going to end.
-
The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.
-
Like some magistrate grown gray in office,Calmly he contemplates alike the justAnd unjust, with indifference he notesEvil and good, and knows not wrath nor pity.
-
When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.
-
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.
