American History By Judith Ortiz Cofer Quotes

#1. I just don't get it. You've been in love with this bloke since you were a kid, and he's never once got his hair cut short enough that it doesn't poke him in the damn eye.

Kristina Adams

#2. The general opinion of Revenge of the Sith seems to be that it marks a distinct improvement on the last two episodes, The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. True, but only in the same way that dying from natural causes is preferable to crucifixion.

Anthony Lane

#3. There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#4. Oh, how I longed to burst through the doors and go walking through the streets, with my hands open, like weapons!

Marcel Bealu

#5. Never underestimate the power of funny, it moves mountains.

James Patterson

#6. But ... ah ... not that I'm on your side now or anything, but you haven't exactly got a lot of time for drama of this quality.

Lia Habel

#7. All this, the positive and physical essence of mechanics, which makes its chief and highest interest for a student of nature, is in existing treatises completely buried and concealed beneath a mass of technical considerations.

Ernst Mach

#8. We mortal millions live alone.

Matthew Arnold

#9. Some things in this world just ain't mean to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

James McBride

#10. I have to go," he said. "You don't understand. Someone wants to kill me.
"Someone wants to kill you?" she repeated. "Well, I want to make love to you. My goodness, Julian. With two such compelling alternatives, however will you choose?

Tessa Dare

#11. You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

Oriana Fallaci

#12. The great genius of the Shiah was its tragic perception that it is impossible fully to implement the ideals of religion in the inescapably violent realm of politics.

Karen Armstrong