Denise Chavez Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Naturally we need black men to give this movie serious credibility.

Walter Hill

#3. Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward.

Anasazi Foundation

#4. When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. Waiting is the most exquisitely painful part of loving someone.

Denise Chavez

#6. Humor does depend on surprise, and the things that people remember as the funniest things in the world, you look at later and you go, "What? What was that all about?"

Matt Groening

#7. Only farmers and the young, who live dependent upon change, understand what it is to know the continual flowering of life, however subtle.

Denise Chavez

#8. When there is a beautiful reflection, we know not where to look, to the reflection or to the reflected!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. What is a human mind? Memories. Memories are data. Character, personality, individual volition. Those are programming.

George R R Martin

#10. To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

James Russell Lowell