Jim Paredes Quotes

#1. No one to hate except the slim fish of memory
that slides in and out of my brain.

Anne Sexton

#2. Their country! There you are. Their filthy lies are all over you already. I was born here. My father was born here and so was my grandfather and his father before him. And then they come, they come and take it, steal it and call it theirs.

Americo Paredes

#3. We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#4. The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.

James Russell Lowell

#5. You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

Arthur Golden

#6. We were all ready to die for the country but what we did not discover was we have to live for the country.

Jim Paredes

#7. All I've tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That's been my main drive. It's not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with.

Cillian Murphy

#8. As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

Madeleine L'Engle

#9. Even great travelers of the inner world have got stuck in beautiful experiences, and have become identified with those experiences, thinking, "I have found myself." They have stopped before reaching the final stage where all experiences disappear. Enlightenment is not an experience.

Rajneesh

#10. What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#11. Not a stone but has its history.

Lucan

#12. But now that her moral sorrows were passing away a fresh one arose

Thomas Hardy

#13. Tagalog sounds like boiling water.

Jim Paredes

#14. Only those who have awakened know that they were sleeping.

Jim Paredes