Octavio Paz Quotes
Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
Octavio Paz
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
Hannah Simone
Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
Laura Mvula
You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
Gail Sheehy
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang
He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
George Carman
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
Carol Burnett
The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
C. S. Lewis
Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
I've seen a lot in my life. My dad was pretty gnarly but I loved him and I wouldn't change it for the world. My mom's a survivor.
Taryn Manning
Boomkat
Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
Octavio Paz
