Octavio Paz Quotes

'A Tale of Two Gardens'

Octavio Paz

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• I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Change
  • Possible

• I don't know who Little Richard is.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Know
  • Who
  • Richard

• I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Different
  • Long
  • Song

• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Out
  • Indignation

• I don't think so, in so far as I always aspired to play the way I do now but just couldn't get the sounds out always due to technical limitations - now I can pretty much play what I hear in realtime.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Play

• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Music
  • Die
  • Proud

• Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Moving
  • New York

• Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Nature
  • Black
  • Green

• I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • World
  • America

• Being fit involves working on all aspects - your body, what you eat, and how you think. A sculpted body is not of much use if you're not there mentally. And similarly, if you're not eating well, it will affect your physical and mental set-up. After all, a six-pack might look good, but that's pretty much it!

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • Good
  • Think

• If you're going to call a book 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History,' readers will expect some serious carrying on about race, and Thomas Woods Jr. does not disappoint.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Book
  • American
  • History

• In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Beginning

• I never expected that I'd be doing as many jobs as I did. I know everybody says that, but I thought I'd be sat in my pants waiting for someone to ring me. Then maybe within five years I might get something.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Waiting
  • Thought

• I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • May
  • Walking

• I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death

• For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • People

• They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!

  

  Lea DeLaria
  • Men
  • Together
  • Guy

• I find that people want aggressive policing if they as a community feel they are part of it. They don't want aggressive policing if they feel it's being imposed upon them and they are a target.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • People
  • Community

• The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Age

• Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan

• Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Experience
  • History
  • Culture

• Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Good
  • Car
  • Memory

• I love to make fried chicken.

  

  John Roger Stephens

• 'A Tale of Two Gardens'

  

  Octavio Paz