Gary Soto's Quotes

#1. It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.

Gary Soto

#2. You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.

Gary Soto

#3. Because nothing should be wasted
In a world where sparrows work hard
To prove there is enough.

Gary Soto

#4. I'll be the invisible girl,
Everyone passing through me,
No one touching.

Gary Soto

#5. I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

Gary Soto

#6. Going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere

Gary Soto

#7. I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#8. Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in this sharing of the deepest parts of ourselves with another that true intimacy in the relationship is cultivated.

John Friend

#9. As you're the employer of your body, the fastest way to start enjoying life begins with figuring out how to cut back the hours of stress.

K.R. Royal

#10. ANTIGONUS If it prove She's otherwise, I'll keep my stables where I lodge my wife; I'll go in couples with her; Than when I feel and see her no further trust her; For every inch of woman in the world, Ay, every dram of woman's flesh, is false, If she be.

William Shakespeare

#11. It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

Jean-Georges Noverre

#12. I drank that sentence and began to glow.

Gary Soto

#13. The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors ... not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry ... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.

Gary Soto

#14. Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.

Gary Soto

#15. There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.

Fede Alvarez

#16. I love doing 'The Price is Right.' It's so much fun. I love meeting everybody and giving out prizes, especially when it's not my money. It's really a happy place, and everybody is all jazzed up.

Drew Carey

#17. because it is selfish to ask for more than what you already have.

Jay McLean

#18. Report uttered by the people is everywhere of great power.

Aeschylus

#19. There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.

Colin Powell

#20. Thoughts cannot form themselves in words so horrid As can express my guilt.

John Dryden

#21. Without privacy, civilized life could not exist.

James Clavell

#22. Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.

John F. Kennedy