Hijuelos Wiki Quotes

#1. I'm perfectly gregarious, but I can also be really happy left to my own devices with nobody watching me or listening to me.

Lindsay Duncan

#2. Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

Don Bluth

#3. Abruptly, she knew that after this night she was never going to be the same again. Nothing was ever going to be the same. Oh, yes, the man could define himself as the dawning of an epoch if he wanted to. There was, quite simply, before Adam and after Adam.

Karen Marie Moning

#4. Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

Holly Hunter

#5. We could cope - the world could cope - with a Jesus who ultimately remains a wonderful idea inside his disciples' minds and hearts. The world cannot cope with a Jesus who comes out of the tomb, who inaugurates God's new creation right in the middle of the old one.

N. T. Wright

#6. My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

Mike Krzyzewski

#7. A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

Albert Einstein

#8. Politicians are nauseating by definition ... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

Gerhard Richter

#9. [DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.

Terence McKenna

#10. The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that."

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. I don't believe for one second that the eye surgery has helped me on the mound.

Greg Maddux

#12. We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

Brandon Sanderson

#13. Tris." I keep staring. "Tris." I finally look at him. "I just don't want to lose you.

Veronica Roth