Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Whyte

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

David Mamet

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

Daniel Alarcon

I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important.

Daniel Alarcon

There are stories that are by and for Latin Americans, where a certain amount of cultural fluency is expected, where we can delight in the details, the humor, the particularities of speech, of dialects. Something is always lost in translation; we know instinctively that this is the case. A Radio Ambulante story looks at Latin America from the inside.

Daniel Alarcon

A lot of attention has been paid in Latin America to the new generation of nonfiction writers, authors like Julio Villanueva Chang, Diego Osorno, Cristóbal Peña, Gabriela Wiener, Leila Guerriero, Cristian Alarcón, among others. These are writers doing important, groundbreaking work. So the talent is there, as is the habit of radio listenership, and what we propose to do is unite the two. We want to have these immensely gifted journalists - men and women who've already revitalized the long-form narrative - we want them to tell their stories in sound.

Daniel Alarcon

How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

Daniel Alarcon

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

Daniel Alarcon

Radio is the medium that most closely approximates the experience of reading. As a novelist, I find it very exciting to be able to reach people who might not ever pick up one of my books, either because they can't afford it (as is often the case in Latin America), or because they just don't have the habit of reading novels.

Daniel Alarcon

For fiction, Im not particularly nationalistic. Im not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.

Conan O'Brien

Today Facebook went public, just as Myspace's last user went private.

Condoleezza Rice

I laugh almost everyday. I have a good sense of humor, so I'm always finding something funny.

Cody Linley

I'm pretty goofy, I'll do anything for a laugh.

Coco Lee

I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.

Cokie Roberts

Women rely on friends. ... That's where we draw sustenance and find safety. We can count on our women friends when we need a good laugh or a good cry.

A lot of producers and creative types want to see you be you. Throw something else out there and show them where you would take this part. A lot of them are launching shows for the first time, so they've got a lot riding on this, too, and they want you to be their flight.

Chuck Palahniuk

If we can prove an afterlife, then we have less pressure to make our physical life last forever.

David Bowie

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer... I write.

Charles Spurgeon

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

We've been ready since last year, but we weren't mature, now we're mature enough to get a state berth.

David Robinson

We've been on this roller-coaster pattern really going back to last spring.

Steve Smith

We're thinking because of the scale of the last several protests, they're moving too fast.

Alan Arkin

If you're playing a negative character, sooner or later it rubs off on you. Some people don't mind living in that state, but I don't want to be there anymore. I don't want to live in a state of depression.

We had 80 entries for the parade and about 150 vehicles and floats. This is probably the largest parade we have ever had.

Chauncey Billups

We got longer, younger and more athletic. This year we played a little more up-tempo than we did last year.

Iris Apfel

Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.

Frederick Law Olmsted

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

Douglas Hurd

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics.

Anatoly Chubais

There was no doubt that sooner or later we will fight. But we will fight not in the way of the dissidents' protests. We understood that we needed to be as professional as possible.

Ian Mcewan

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

Emily Oster

The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

Chris Collins

We laughed over a new mobile phone which neither of us could make work.