Octavio Paz Quotes
Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
Quotes to Explore
-
I would love to be a role model.
-
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
-
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
-
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
-
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
-
I'm here today because I hated everything else.
-
One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
-
I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
-
Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
-
It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
-
I don't see myself as a diva at all.
-
I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
-
Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
-
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
-
I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
-
I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
-
New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
-
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
-
For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered.
-
The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.
-
Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
-
The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality.
-
Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.
-
Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
