Alegria Quotes

#1. I feel that joy is the basic emotion of life and of human beings. It's what supports everything. We are here to be happy. We are to enjoy "alegria."

Alex Abreu

#2. I am myself of a mixed background.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

#3. Before a kid learns how to use a computer that can solve mathematical problems, he or she should know how to do arithmetic without a computer.

Andy Rooney

#4. The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

#5. When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

Terry Tempest Williams

#6. I dare you to tell me to walk through fire Wear my soul and call me a liar ...

Shinedown

#7. I love writing. It makes me so happy.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

#8. Some of the plants have obituary names: Iris, Basil, Rue, Rosemary, and Verbena. Some, like meadowsweet and cowslips, sweet flag and spikenard, are like the names of Shakespeare fairies.

Chuck Palahniuk

#9. I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

Quiara Alegria Hudes

#10. Well, if you're a mess then I'm a natural disaster."
"The cutest natural disaster I've ever seen.

Kasie West

#11. News is something that happens that matters to you, which is not most of what we watch on television.

Val Kilmer

#12. May God deny you peace but give you glory!

Miguel De Unamuno

#13. My brain is my biggest enemy - always arguing my soul into a corner.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

#14. I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

Tony Hillerman

#15. Every time I was playing basketball, I felt sick to my stomach. I didn't realize that feeling was having to leave my family - having to leave my sister, who can't even communicate with me when I'm gone.

Elena Delle Donne

#16. Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.

Gary A. Klein

#17. If I look at my work from the beginning it is more the idea of trying to establish a kind of material that one can work with for the future, rather than making nostalgic images to record something that will later become lost.

Thomas Struth

#18. I love researching, I love interviewing.

Quiara Alegria Hudes

#19. Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing.

Nhat Hanh

#20. I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

Quiara Alegria Hudes