Cubano Quotes

#1. Raymond collected expressions. He repeated them in experimental accents, as if learning a tune. He sounded like an Eighteenth Street Mexican when he said cuate, like a Logan Square cubano when he said comemierda.

Sebastian Rotella

#2. Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates.

David Denby

#3. Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.

Margaret Halsey

#4. I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much.

Tiffany Reisz

#5. How do you look at the girl you love and tell yourself it's time to go away ?

Nicholas Sparks

#6. Evil does not fight against evil, rather it struggles against Good. Where as, Good does not struggle against evil, rather it overwhelmingly defeats it".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#7. My children have grown up around animals. They're not scared of them.

Candace Cameron

#8. The greater part of violence that humans have inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or the mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens in the service of the collective ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#9. Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.

Robert A. Heinlein

#10. On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat?

Sam Ewing

#11. What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

Gene Stratton-Porter

#12. Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.

Otto Penzler

#13. A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

Edward Abbey