El Norte Quotes

#1. It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.

John C. Calhoun

#2. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.

John C. Maxwell

#3. At fifteen, I have taken up the burdens of a woman, and have come to feel I am one. Furthermore, I am glad of it. For I now no longer have the time to fall into such sins as I committed as a girl, when hours that were my own to spend spread before me like a gift.

Geraldine Brooks

#4. How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.

Vanessa Paradis

#5. Poor boys are easier than middle-class or rich ones. Boys who've been busted are easier than boys who have not. Southern boys are easier than Northern boys. Marines are easier than Masturbation.

John Valentine

#6. I can handle heckling on evolution because it's my own field.

Richard Dawkins

#7. Every now and then I love to invest in a company that may not set the world on fire, but has the chance to establish itself, create jobs and have a positive impact.

Mark Cuban

#8. His words have become invisible scars on my skin - Awake in Purple Dreams

Tracey-anne McCartney

#9. Plot is very important to me, but I think my stories are stronger in character development.

Tom Johnson

#10. Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

Eddie Slovik

#11. The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#12. For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley.

Matt Smith

#13. Romance cannot be put into quantity production-the moment love becomes casual, it becomes commonplace.

Frederick Lewis Allen

#14. Dying was never as hard as having to live again.

Lynn Vroman

#15. Real beauty is my aim.

Mahatma Gandhi