Fiestas Quotes

#1. The utilitarian argument against fiestas, parades, carnivals, and general public merriment is that they produce nothing. But they do: they produce society. They renew the reasons why we might want to belong and the feeling that we do.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. Fiestas always began as if they were being held in a parlor, amid teacups.

Warren Eyster

#3. Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.

Wallace Stevens

#4. I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray ... I am myself the matter of my book.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. He doesn't love anyone, and maybe he never will.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. the innate need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world'.62 Numerous experiments have shown that not only do rewards reduce motivation, they actually hamper our performance. In

Raoul Martinez

#7. Note to self: Overthrow government of magical Britain at earliest convenience.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#8. Poor kid, I thought, to do this to yourself at twenty-three and leave a note that tells me you could have been a writer. I would have liked that for you. I would have liked that very much.

Roger Kahn

#9. But every tomorrow has led to today - to us being alone, hungry, and cold on an unknown island somewhere in the South Pacific.

Jennifer Arnett

#10. The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.

Patrick Macnee

#11. At the end of the day, I think everybody takes for granted that they get up, get out of bed every morning - just the mere fact that they can stand in front of the mirror and brush their teeth and get in their car and take off? A lot of people take their health for granted.

Brock Lesnar