Bulosan Carlos Quotes

#1. Lawgivers make the citizens food by training them in habits of right action - this is the aim of all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure.

Aristotle.

#2. Nothing stimulates the practiced cook's imagination like an egg.

Irma S. Rombauer

#3. The human heart is bigger than the world.

Carlos Bulosan

#4. I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.

Geoffrey Rush

#5. If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'

Nancy Greene

#6. The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

Mary Schmich

#7. Thought's surface: word.
Word's surface: gesture.
Gesture's surface: skin.
Skin's surface: shiver.

Vera Pavlova

#8. I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California ... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did not commit. And this crime is that I am a Filipino in America.

Carlos Bulosan

#9. We ... recognize the forces which have been trying to falsify American history - the forces which drive away many Americans to a corner of compromise with those who would distort the ideals of men that died for freedom.

Carlos Bulosan

#10. Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.

Carlos Bulosan

#11. Yes, I will be a writer and make all of you live again in my words.

Carlos Bulosan

#12. You ... see us ... and you think you know us, but our outward guise is more deceptive than our history.

Carlos Bulosan