Top 100 Felipe Quotes
#1. I was born in Panama, the Republic of Panama, on July 16, 1948 in Panama City, in an area called San Felipe.
Ruben Blades
#2. Meet my cat, Felipe. I should probably mention, he doesn't like strangers. * Understatement of the year. The gigantic, furry, striped monster with saber teeth and red glowing eyes was her cat? "Holy fuck, woman. He's the size of a bloody car.
Eve Langlais
#3. There are many young talents in Brazil. There is a lot of hope in Felipe Massa. It is very difficult to judge him in his first year, but by the end of the end we are going to have a better position how he does in Formula One.
Emerson Fittipaldi
#4. We used to look at Felipe as our guiding man that we listened to.
Juan Marichal
#5. Felipe focused on the smattering of freckles across her bare left shoulder. For the next hour, he counted each of them out of the corner of his eye--an entire universe's worth. Lost in the constellations, he barely noticed the lurch of the small plane.
Amanda Heger
#6. So one Sunday night, as the church-bells chimed 24 times, we were not especially surprised when a fist hammered on our door. What was surprising, however, was the fact that the fist belonged to Pancho the Mayor. Beside him stood his assistant, Felipe Frog.
Victoria Twead
#7. Felipe and I, as we discover to our delight, are a perfectly matched, genetically engineered belly-to-belly success story.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#8. You know, it's a funny thing. The only Romance language Felipe doesn't happen to speak is Italian. But I go ahead and say it to him anyway, just as we're about to jump.
I say: 'Attraversiamo.'
Let's cross over.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#9. But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to notice that I'm wearing the same thing all the time."
"You're young and beautiful, darling. You only need the one dress
Elizabeth Gilbert
#10. Prince Felipe is the best ambassador for Spain: I have already told Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, minister of foreign affairs, that the prince should travel to the U.S. more often.
James Costos
#11. The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
Felipe VI
#12. People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row.
Luiz Felipe Scolari
#13. I may not be the best dad but I taught my son how to get free samples at the mall.
Felipe Esparza
#14. Truth threatens peace. Those who think they possess it tend to turn into victimizers of the rest, like all the other bullies convinced of the superiority of their own race or class or caste or blood or wisdom.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#16. Rich people bring a lawyer. Latinos and blacks bring their mom.
Felipe Esparza
#17. Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ.
Luiz Felipe Scolari
#18. I didn't know how to grab your best material and put it together into a comedy set. I would just choose subjects and do it onstage. That's what I learned. I didn't know how to put a set together.
Felipe Esparza
#19. I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course, the Latinos and Latinas as well.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#20. Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.
King Felipe VI
#21. Offside killed my team. They are not God. They made a mistake and I understand. I don't want three points, I just want 'sorry.'
Luiz Felipe Scolari
#22. Peepo Choo is avant-garde! ... It is both comedy and drama! It is both the wildest fiction and the most sobering reality! It's about love and hate! About passion! About being human! It's about life!!!
Felipe Smith
#23. I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.
King Felipe VI
#24. All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#25. Every week for me was the same audience, and every week they heckled me. The better I got at comedy, the better the audience was at heckling me. But it helped me with my joke writing.
Felipe Esparza
#26. My parents moved from ranch to ranch, valley to valley, town to town, but our roots in Fowler never really faded. For me, it's a place of history, stories and songs, not just facts and figures.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#27. I'm usually writing in English, and then I'll get the hankering to change channels. And usually I'll do that when I want to try a whole new set of keys, like musical keys.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#28. The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#29. Thanksgiving is the day you don't know if you're invited for dinner or an intervention either way is going to be an ambush.
Felipe Esparza
#30. Yet we keep returning to reason precisely because it occupies the middle place; it is the revisited point on the swing of the pendulum between scepticism and enthusiasm.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#31. What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#32. The myth of Native Americans' talent for conservationism before the arrival of the white man is belied by the evidence of the scale of their slaughters.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#33. We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
Felipe VI
#34. According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard!
Felipe Esparza
#35. Those who feel they are clean, go ahead and throw the first rock. If you're clean, if you have not done anything wrong or been accused of anything wrong, go ahead and start the show.
Felipe Alou
#36. We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.
King Felipe VI
#37. I've got three women in my life: my mama, ex baby mama and my new baby mama.
Felipe Esparza
#38. Any time you put Matheny in, that's good managing.
Felipe Alou
#39. We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.
King Felipe VI
#40. All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#41. We speak about understanding each other, having those conversations nationwide - culturally, historically - and yet there's a lot of gaps. So I want to assist with closing the gap of knowing about and hearing about our Latino communities in terms of literature, in terms of writing.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#42. Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#43. I am representing California, and all of California, definitely as a Mexicano, a Chicano, a Latino.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#45. Chinese naval activity, for instance, was aborted after Zheng He's last voyage, probably as a result of
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#46. I remember looking at James Joyce's journals. It was just amazing - it looked like ants had written on the page. So much writing on one page, every corner of the page was filled. Some of the lines were underlined in yellow or blue or red. A lot of color, intense writing.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#47. I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#48. Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it
Felipe Alou
#49. First grade was - I spoke only Spanish, and second grade - probably a bit more English. And by the time I hit third grade, I was learning, of course, much, much more English.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#50. My lineage is for me enough, / Content to live without expensive stuff" was Alonso Manrique's motto, but he was an accomplished poet.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#51. I gotta lose weight. I got stretch marks on my stomach and I never had a baby. So now when I take off my shirt in front of women, I tell them I was attacked by a mountain lion.
Felipe Esparza
#52. Cougar jokes are now as hackneyed as airplane food.
Felipe Esparza
#53. Valentines Day is the Super Bowl of relationships. If you're alone that night you didn't make the cut.
Felipe Esparza
#54. I know I'm getting older because yesterday I called the police on my neighbors.
Felipe Esparza
#55. You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can. And the next day do it again.
Felipe Esparza
#57. Sometimes it's like that. I go, 'You know what? I'm going to just change scales. I'm going to even change instruments. And I'm going to go into the chromatics of the Spanish language,' and I do. You know, the poem is totally different. It's like a lunar voice versus a day voice, a solar voice.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#58. My mom cooked the same food every day - tortillas, beans and meat. If it was enchiladas, it was - tortillas, beans and meat. If it was burritos, it was still - tortillas, beans and meat.
Felipe Esparza
#59. Migrants all over the world are pushed and pulled across borders by hunger, terror and climate change. It happened to my own family.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#61. Whenever another Latino tells me they're more Mexican than me I stop working and let them do the work for me.
Felipe Esparza
#62. I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#63. I used to work at UPS I got fired for unloading packages into my car.
Felipe Esparza
#66. Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.
King Felipe VI
#67. I envy people who could just have one drink and not go look for cocaine afterwards.
Felipe Esparza
#68. Yes, I am the first Latino poet laureate in the United States. But I'm also here for everyone and from everyone. My voice is made by everyone's voices.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#69. I want to reaffirm, as king, my faith in the unity of Spain.
Felipe VI
#70. My dad was one of those dads that would make me stop crying by threatening to beat me.
Felipe Esparza
#71. Before you go further,
let me tell you what a poem brings,
first, you must know the secret, there is no poem
to speak of, it is a way to attain a life without boundaries ...
Juan Felipe Herrera
#72. I was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, along with two of my siblings. The rest were born here in the United States. I didn't know we were illegal until I was in the 8th grade. We would call other kids wetbacks, but we were the real wetbacks!
Felipe Esparza
#74. Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.
King Felipe VI
#76. In the last few days when I was not even the manager of England my freedom was taken away from me and that is not the coaching I am used to.
Luiz Felipe Scolari
#79. The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
King Felipe VI
#80. If you have a fat brother or sister you might be American.
Felipe Esparza
#81. I love my dad. He used to be a professional wrestler in Mexico. So it was cool growing up with him, because when he hit us, he didn't really hit us.
Felipe Esparza
#82. I like marketplaces. I like train stations; I like being in trains. I like airports. I like walking down the street with a pen in my hand, writing, writing, writing.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#83. While everyone else was saying Trick or Treat my dad was telling us to say Triki Tras.
Felipe Esparza
#84. You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
King Felipe VI
#85. I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#86. I was afraid of last place, ... There were a lot of fears. Below .500 - I never thought I'd see that here. Then, losing 100 games seemed like a possibility, then 90 games. All of those things could have been a reality here. The grave seemed like a reality here, but the guys didn't let it happen.
Felipe Alou
#87. The police pulled me over and asked me if I have anything illegal in my car. I looked at my cousin and I ran.
Felipe Esparza
#88. Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#89. San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#90. I could never have a threesome. This is not a threesome body. This is a turn off the lights body, leave your shirt on body - this is a tell nobody.
Felipe Esparza
#91. I started drinking when I was like 15, and by the time I was 19 everybody knew I was an alcoholic. So I would start five fights every weekend and lose terribly. First you start off fighting with one person and then he beats you up; and then one guy would be laughing, so you would hit him, too.
Felipe Esparza
#92. I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#93. Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#94. Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld and that exemplariness preside over our public life. And the king, as the head of state, must not only be an example but also a servant to that just and legitimate demand of the citizens.
King Felipe VI
#95. In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
Felipe VI
#96. Just like my parents immigrated from ranch to ranch picking crops, I have migrated from city to city.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#97. [P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.
Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
#98. This has been done by masters of the trade and Garcia had taken in every stock situation with amazing powers of retention, but he had not put things together right and had used extraordinary discernment in not adding one single touch of originality.
Felipe Alfau
#99. A real woman needs quotes by dead men to get through the day.
Felipe Esparza
#100. Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.
Juan Felipe Herrera
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