Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salma Hayek

I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'

Salma Hayek

I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

Sandra Cisneros

I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

Linda Ronstadt

I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.

Lee Trevino

You're Mexican until you make money and then you're Spanish.

Joe Arpaio

Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.

Gael Garcia Bernal

When confronted with a clear definition of what it is to be Mexican, we encounter ourselves in a never ending allegory of mixes and chaos.

George Lopez

We're Mexican not Mexican't!

Jake Peavy

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

Ryan Kwanten

I've always been relatively reserved with my social encounters.

Wayne Dyer

When you meet anyone, treat the even as a holy encounter.

John Green

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

Jurgen Habermas

The avant-garde understands itself as invading unknown territory, exposing itself to the dangers of sudden, shocking encounters, conquering an as yet unoccupied future ... The avant-garde must find a direction in a landscape into which no one seems to have yet ventured.

R. C. Sproul

When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.

Pope Francis

The Internet offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity. This is something truly good, a gift from God.

Julianna Baggott

Being cross-genre, you can encounter an image and decide not only how to best express it but what form would express it best.

Bill Johnson

We owe the world an encounter with God

Bill Johnson

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

Richelle Mead

Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.

Tryon Edwards

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

Truman Capote

Nancy clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that is the definition of a lady.

Robert Penn Warren

In separateness only does love learn definition.

Robert M. Pirsig

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can't reason without them.

Saul Bellow

Excuse me ... but I reject your definitions of me.

Warren Farrell

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

Rick Yancey

The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.

Jose Mujica

My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.