Conquistador Quotes

#1. Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

T. S. Eliot

#2. Gravy is the simplest, tastiest, most memory-laden dish I know how to make: a little flour, salt and pepper, crispy bits of whatever meat anchored the meal, a couple of cups of water or milk and slow stirring to break up lumps.

Dorothy Allison

#3. Don't give in to the darkness, for there is so much life ahead of you.

Seth Adam Smith

#4. I know a conquistador when I see one. I know all about making a splash. It isn't hard. If you shout loud enough, for long enough, a crowd will gather to see what all the noise is about. It's the nature of crowds. They don't stay long, unless you give them reason.

Michael Cunningham

#5. I also think swimmers are pretty fashion conscious and mos aren't always the best accessory to be rocking. Haha.

James Magnussen

#6. The problem with unfilled dreams is that they give us tunnel vision. We focus on ourselves, and that can be depressing and discouraging place to look.

Donna VanLiere

#7. There are no slow retroviruses, only slow retrovirologists.

Peter Duesberg

#8. When adversity entered his room, he bowed to his old acquaintance cordially; he tickled catastrophe in the ribs.

Victor Hugo

#9. I don't do hats." "Poo," Lea said. "Arianna still hates the Europeans with a vengeance, you know. It was why she took a conquistador husband.

Anonymous

#10. Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Nick Clooney

#11. I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.

Taiye Selasi

#12. I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador

Sigmund Freud

#13. In a new world behave in a new way as a new man. unhorse the conquistador.

Padgett Powell

#14. After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He was sending his army a message: "We can't turn back. Either we succeed here or we die here." Excuses were not an option.

Lou Holtz

#15. Isabelle went to the airman. As she neared him, she

Kristin Hannah

#16. Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty

Ousmane Sembene

#17. Wal-Mart's relationship to place has become so abstracted that the company views even its own stores through the conquistador's eyeglass. Like temporary forts built solely for purposes of territorial conquest, any one of them can be abandoned at any time.

Douglas Rushkoff

#18. As he stood, he slid his jeans off, rising above me like an Indian prince and Mexican conquistador all wrapped up into one...

Michelle I. Brooks

#19. However people feel about Kanye is their opinion, but I think he's a genius.

Pooch Hall

#20. I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

Stevie Ray Vaughan