Corn Husks Quotes

#1. I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made me think of someone tearing up an expensive and potentially Italian set of trousers in a fit of madness that this person just might regret later.

Reif Larsen

#2. If you're Mejicana or Mejicano and don't know who Pedro Infante is, you should be tied to a hot stove with yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos.

Denise Chavez

#3. According to the yoga tradition, each person is allotted a certain number of breaths, and after you exceed this number, your time on earth is finished. People who breathe hurriedly and shallowly use up their allotment of breaths quickly, but if you breathe slowly and consciously,

Larry Payne

#4. Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

Mark Twain

#5. The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on ... A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.

Aldo Leopold

#6. My favourite programme of all time is 'Weeds'; the first three or four series are perfection.

Miranda Raison

#7. Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Amunhotep El Bey

#8. If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.

Pierre Dukan

#9. I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it.

George Washington

#10. Ah, sarcasm. The final refuge of the desperate.

Ashlyn Macnamara

#11. Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.

Periander

#12. Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

Kollontai Alexandra

#13. The role of leaders is not to get other people to follow them but to empower others to lead.

Bill George

#14. It helps to remember that people who possess the qualities we lack aren't any better than us. They weren't given a bigger piece of the awesome pie. They are just as flawed, but in different ways.

Michaela Chung