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 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

• 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

• I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Period

• Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• A good movie is made by an initial burst of energy, the way that, when you are in school, your class exercises are always better than your final projects.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • School
  • Movie

• I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Poetry
  • Right
  • Wrote

• I've always felt, pound for pound, I'm one of the best guys around; but you get stuck in people's eyes in a certain way, and it takes an imaginative director who will look at you and realize you can play different kinds of parts because you are an actor.

  

  Martin Landau
  • People
  • Different
  • Eyes

• Though [Abraham Lincoln] never would travel to Europe, he went with Shakespeare's kings to Merry England; he went with Lord Byron poetry to Spain and Portugal. Literature allowed him to transcend his surroundings.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Poetry
  • Travel
  • Literature

• Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

  

  George William Curtis
  • Poetry
  • Memory
  • Romance

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

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Eyes
  • Poetry
  • See