Giannina Quotes

#1. My legitimate kids are Dalma and Giannina. The rest are a product of my money and mistakes.

Diego Maradona

#2. Zarathustra: Do you have words? Do your words belong to you?
Giannina: No, my answer is no. I have no property in the dictionary. Words are anonymous like the disenfranchised masses that haven't been weighed - or named - or framed. My words belong to those who don't belong.

Giannina Braschi

#3. The good thing about a film, or at least the films I've been a part of, is, no matter what happens in the end, you do the premiere and everyone's excited. You don't remember the rough times.

Nate Parker

#4. You can't get any pictures from way back there.

Leo Durocher

#5. Gratitude is not something idyllic that comes when all good things line up to be counted. Gratitude is there all the time waiting to be focused on.

Antonia Montoya

#6. Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

Giannina Braschi

#7. And suppose you don't like it? Excellent question; and, strangely, one I'd never asked myself, principally because I had chosen the ingredients, and I always have faith in my own judgment.

Truman Capote

#8. We were fighting for them in wars against people that we had more in common with than with the United States of Banana.

Giannina Braschi

#9. It's the end of man and I can do whatever I want.

Brecken Hancock

#10. I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.

Esther Williams

#11. A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.

Giannina Braschi

#12. The siren heralds a friend, the bee a stranger.

Hilda M. Ransome

#13. Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality.

Robertson Davies

#14. If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

Giannina Braschi

#15. What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

Giannina Braschi

#16. Inside you is a two-million-year-old soul that knows what you deserve, that's making martinis as we speak. Start talking to that woman and drink what she's serving.

Lauren Roedy Vaughn

#17. It's not easy being Hugh Jackman, but he wears the attention better than anyone I've ever met. He treats every person he meets the same and finds joy in everything he does. The lesson I've learned is that if you work incredibly hard, and you're nice to everybody, you'll be fine.

Laura Donnelly

#18. Poetry must find ways of breaking distance ... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

Giannina Braschi

#19. It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

Giannina Braschi

#20. Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

Giannina Braschi

#21. Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

Giannina Braschi

#22. Solitude goes wherever you go, traveler.

Giannina Braschi

#23. You know, in politics when you come in third, it's a win.

Paula Poundstone

#24. Sanctification costs to the extent of an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

Oswald Chambers

#25. I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

Giannina Braschi

#26. I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

Giannina Braschi

#27. Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Giannina Braschi

#28. Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom. Feardom is what they bring. And they bring fire and smoke. Oh, my nerves are bad tonight, yes, bad. I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom.

Giannina Braschi

#29. A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

#30. I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.

Anna Akhmatova

#31. We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#32. Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

Giannina Braschi