Octavio Paz Quotes
Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.Octavio Paz
Quotes to Explore
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
Zach Braff -
Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
Karin Slaughter -
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
Wangari Maathai -
Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
Rabih Alameddine -
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
Warren Kole
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I can paint in jail.
Jack Kevorkian -
At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
Dana Perino -
I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
Barry Humphries -
As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
Barry Sternlicht -
I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
Dani Shapiro -
The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
Maggie Smith
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
Nas -
I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.
Ingrid Bergman -
Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari -
Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
Taylor Negron -
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
V. S. Naipaul -
When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
Aaron Neville
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My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.
Nathaniel Rateliff -
And I got so drunk, I got so drunk that I actually woke up thinking, 'Should I get up and pee, or just pee in the bed?' Actually weighing the pros and the cons. 'Well, it'll be warm for a minute...it's a big bed, I'll just roll over...I'll just blame it on that guy!'
Margaret Cho -
It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.
Ralph Fiennes -
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
Tim Ferriss -
Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
Octavio Paz