Octavio Paz Quotes

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

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• It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • True
  • Identity
  • Interests

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • You
  • Humor
  • Grace

• As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.

  

  Gary Player
  • Know
  • Golf
  • Puzzle

• I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Mean
  • First
  • Princess

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Different
  • Real

• You can have the biggest markets in the world, but if the game isn't exciting, compelling, and competitive, it's not going to generate a lot of interest.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • Game
  • You

• On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Day
  • Hurt

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I like to have something to base a role on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Like
  • Something
  • Role

• The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Embrace
  • Older

• In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Enemy
  • First

• Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Why
  • You
  • Know

• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Better
  • Morality

• I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • People
  • Happy
  • Strong

• My childhood was appalling.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Childhood
  • Appalling

• Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.

  

  Walter Raleigh

• We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• Much of Satan's time is spent trying to make you remember what God has already forgotten. Reconcile, rejoice, and look forward.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Forgotten

• For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Time
  • Men
  • American

• Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Heart

• To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

  

  Octavio Paz
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