Antonio Machado Quotes

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

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• Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Great
  • Friend
  • Person

• Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Day

• I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Book
  • Soul
  • Night

• The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Knowledge
  • Stress
  • Sympathy

• Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Time
  • Family
  • Taken

• Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Always

• It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Up
  • Now
  • Tough

• I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • You
  • Summer

• Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Feeling
  • Simple
  • Destiny

• The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Poetry
  • Touch

• Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Experience
  • Road
  • Acceptance

• My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Cool

• Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Regrets

• That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Why
  • Artist

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Way

• Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Faith
  • My Life

• Moral values includes the immorality of 45 million uninsured or the immorality of working people who are having trouble raising a family despite working full-time. That has to be part of the moral equation. And if we are able to frame things in that fashion, then I think we can be successful.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• I'll just say that hopefully they've drained the mud out of the building, and the termites aren't going to eat the buildings away in between the time we get down there. They made a good judgment probably to get this back in, and that's the important thing about it.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Important

• I am the king of the world. I'm a man's man.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • World
  • Man
  • King

• The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Gun

• God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.

  

  William Faulkner
  • God
  • Kill
  • Created

• The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Language