Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Fuentes

The French equate intelligence with rational discourse, the Russians with intense soul-searching. For the Mexican, intelligence is inseparable from maliciousness.

Diego Rivera

My cubist paintings are my most Mexican.

Chelsea Handler

It always freaks me out when I go to a sushi place and there's a Mexican.

Jake Peavy

This Mexican team, they're not running out slop. They've got proven major-league talent.

Kenneth Roth

It's a right that is broadly supported by the Mexican people, but it is a right that is rarely respected in practice.

Craig Ferguson

I don't drink anymore for Cinco de Mayo. I celebrate with Mexican food, or as it's known in Mexico: 'food.'

Alex Cox

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

Donald Trump

When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending the best. They're sending people that have lots of problems and they're bringing those problems. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists and some, I assume, are good people, but I speak to border guards and they're telling us what we're getting.

Alma Guillermoprieto

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Carson McCullers

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

David Foster Wallace

All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.

Rick Riordan

So you can't live in Manhattan?' she asked. Amos's brow furrowed as he looked across at the Empire State Building. 'Manhattan has other problems. Other gods. It's best we stay separate.

Rem Koolhaas

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

Red Buttons

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!

Val Kilmer

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

Tea Leoni

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

Mick Jagger

The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.

Edward Gibbon

Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life . . .

Andrew Grossman

Unprecedented in its size and scope, Higher Expectations Week unifies concerned citizens to highlight the myriad of problems Wal-Mart creates, ... Together, this national movement is moving toward making the retailing giant a better employer, neighbor and corporate citizen.

Martina Horvathova

We want respect. We don't feel equal citizens of the Czech Republic. We don't feel free. We fear for our children.

James Nash

We want our citizens of Houston and our citizens from New Orleans to know that we've got to come together as one and we do that by communicating, by sharing.

J. J. Johnson

We were trying so hard not to do something that would upset this man and get one of our citizens killed. ... Everything had to be read from a script.

Bob McDonnell

The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.

Kim Campbell

Whether you come from Port Alberni on the West Coast as I do, or from Port-Cartier on the shores of the St. Lawrence, we all share the rare privilege of being citizens of one of the greatest countries in the world.

Maria Rodriguez

We're getting used to people on the street. Now it's time to get residents to become citizens and citizens to vote.

Dick Durbin

Under unitary executive theory, the [George W.]Bush administration has claimed the right to seize American citizens in the United States and imprison them indefinitely without a charge.