Top 100 Jorge's Quotes

#1. Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment - the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #4810
#2. Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #6130
#3. There will never be another Mariano Rivera. He was a friend and a champion of a teammate. He really cared about the game of baseball, the way it was played, and whatever it took to win that night.

Jorge Posada

Jorge's Quotes #6760
#4. I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #7194
#5. There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #9005
#6. My friend you must understand that time forks perpetually into countless futures. And in at least one of them I have become your enemy. Jorge Luis Borges, The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)

Adrian McKinty

Jorge's Quotes #10868
#7. Many people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #11354
#8. Night was running ahead of itself.

Jorge Amado

Jorge's Quotes #12646
#9. What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #19092
#10. No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #20484
#11.
,all our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #21178
#12. The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #22262
#13. If we think of the novel and the epic ... The difference lies in the fact that the important thing about the epic is a hero
a man who is a pattern for all men. While, as Mencken pointed out, the essence of most novels lies in the breaking down of a man, in the degeneration of character.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #25962
#14. In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #30497
#15. I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #32107
#16. It must be that I am not made to be a dead man, but these places and this discussion seem like a dream, and not a dream dreamed by me but by someone else still to be born.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #36823
#17. If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #43734
#18. We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #44549
#19. Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #48670
#20. We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #48709
#21. A ... poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #53404
#22. In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #56374
#23. Love
the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

Jorge Amado

Jorge's Quotes #56976
#24. I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #63957
#25. I think as journalists, we have to keep our distance from power.

Jorge Ramos

Jorge's Quotes #64852
#26. The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #68304
#27. Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848.

Jorge Ramos

Jorge's Quotes #69834
#28. In death we shall rediscover all the instants of our life and we shall freely combine them as in dreams.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #71579
#29. The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #77419
#30. Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #79023
#31. I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #79218
#32. I am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #82436
#33. That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #84645
#34. A writer always begins by being too complicated - he's playing at several games at once.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #87443
#35. In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It's like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don't want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.

Jorge Bucay

Jorge's Quotes #119106
#36. In spite of these three obstacles, Menard's fragmentary _Quixote_ is more subtle than Cervantes'.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #170469
#37. It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #187274
#38. There definitely is an appearance issue, ... Now whether or not there's a reality issue, I don't know.

Jorge M. Perez

Jorge's Quotes #216043
#39. that's too small! i swear.

Jorge

Jorge's Quotes #217447
#40. A writer's work is the product of laziness.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #221489
#41. God has created nights well-populated
with dreams, crowded with mirror images,
so that man may feel that he is nothing more
than vain reflection. That's what frightens us.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #240535
#42. I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning out.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #255399
#43. I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man's diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books ... If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #311623
#44. The real mariachis in Mexico are singers like Agustin Lara and Pedro Infante and Jorge Negrete - the Golden Era of Mexican Filmmaking. Mariachis sing very soft and very beautiful. That's old-school mariachi. They are caressing the songs.

Jaime Camil

Jorge's Quotes #318176
#45. If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #443683
#46. I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

Jorge Garcia

Jorge's Quotes #490339
#47. He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy.
He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of
the ball. I just like watching him hit.

Jorge Posada

Jorge's Quotes #493430
#48. He's (his father Jorge Posada IV) happy for me. He remembers all of my big games. When I hit
my first home run in the World Series, he was here, and he cried. It's like I'm
living his dream.

Jorge Posada

Jorge's Quotes #504474
#49. In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain
the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman's eyes.
You have used up the years and they have used up you,
and still, and still, you have not written the poem.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #539819
#50. It's good to see a kid that
young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

Jorge Posada

Jorge's Quotes #577078
#51. Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

Jorge Garcia

Jorge's Quotes #585594
#52. Man's memory shapes
Its own Eden within

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #592251
#53. All things left her, all
But one. Her highborn courtliness
Accompanied her to the end,
Beyond the rapture and its eclipse,
In a way like an angel's. Of Elvira
The first thing that I saw - such years ago -
Was her smile and also it was the last.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #635716
#54. Like every writer, he measured other men's virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #656811
#55. I can't talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have read me many times, no? I try to think of what I wrote, it's very unhealthy to think about the past, the case of elegies is very sad, as much as the case of complaints.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #667993
#56. My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

John Hodgman

Jorge's Quotes #671078
#57. I clarified that I myself was Colombian.
"What is 'being Colombian'?"
"I'm not sure," I replied. "It's an act of faith."
"Like being Norwegian," she said, nodding.
I can recall nothing further of what was said that night.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #682144
#58. The bacillus of efficiency has also attacked football, and some dare to ask what's the point in playing well. I feel tempted to tell about the time they dared to ask Borges what is poetry for, to which he answered: 'What is a sunrise for? What are caresses for? What is the smell of coffee for?'

Jorge Valdano

Jorge's Quotes #768346
#59. The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man's memory. That is our duty. If we don't fulfill it, we feel unhappy.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #806695
#60. I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #822372
#61. It's enough that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather then in certaintes.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #836442
#62. I like teaching. I would like to help out with the young catchers; be there for them and obviously, you know, what it takes to get here. That's the biggest thing, I think.

Jorge Posada

Jorge's Quotes #888535
#63. Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird's cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #903695
#64. After hours of work, they finally found an address through someone Jorge called "a friend of a friend of an enemy's enemy." By that time it was late and they all crashed for the night;

James Dashner

Jorge's Quotes #922109
#65. Aw, how could he Jorge Orta lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico.

Harry Caray

Jorge's Quotes #986879
#66. Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #997678
#67. When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It's the astonishment of being myself

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1019465
#68. I try to avoid purple patches, fine writing, all that kind of thing ... because I think they're a mistake. And then sometimes it comes through and sometimes it doesn't, but that's not up to me. It's up to chance.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1032953
#69. I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1069012
#70. Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1152602
#71. Sometimes you have to ask the question as if it's going to be your last question - as if it's going to be the last time you talk to that person.

Jorge Ramos

Jorge's Quotes #1154656
#72. When you're aggressive behind the plate, calling a game, that's when you're at your best. You can't be tentative.

Jorge Posada

Jorge's Quotes #1166801
#73. The 3-hour Diet is absolutely safe - in fact it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle! Once you reach your goal weight, you just adjust the portion sizes slightly to maintain that optimal weight.

Jorge Cruise

Jorge's Quotes #1226270
#74. You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1250474
#75. I'm a lot older. I'm wiser. I know what to do now, and hopefully, I don't
get in (anybody's) way.

Jorge Posada

Jorge's Quotes #1315366
#76. What I find most interesting about the U.S. is this idea of equality.

Jorge Ramos

Jorge's Quotes #1329900
#77. I think it's all to the good that a writer shouldn't be too famous. Because, in a country where a writer may be famous, he may be pandering to the mob, celebrity and so on.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1337703
#78. I'm more afraid of success than failure. Success makes us so sure of ourselves that we do not analyze the factors that lead us to our success. Instead, in failure there's an error that lurks that makes us reflect and in that process there is learning and that makes us better

Jorge Valdano

Jorge's Quotes #1368704
#79. He pitches better when he's mad, so I try to make him that way.

Jorge Posada

Jorge's Quotes #1377471
#80. That's always a cool thing to be the voice of what the eyes are seeing. It gives you the role of the Greek chorus and that's always fun to do.

Jorge Garcia

Jorge's Quotes #1418277
#81. Before he came to Spain, photographers lined up in the discotheques, but they are still there waiting for him. Ronaldo is an obsessive of training, of the gym, of self-improvement. I've never seen a player in such good physical condition. He's a gladiator.

Jorge Valdano

Jorge's Quotes #1426099
#82. Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1441033
#83. Halfway through his reclusion, Arredondo experienced more than once that almost timeless time. In the first of the house's three patios there was cistern with a frog in it. It never occurred to Arredondo to think that the frog's time, which borders on eternity, was what he himself sought.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1545478
#84. I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier.

Jorge Cruise

Jorge's Quotes #1547415
#85. I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There's nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.

Jorge Amado

Jorge's Quotes #1577565
#86. Remember that setbacks are only challenges in disguise. Look at them as lessons ... don't waste time beating yourself up. Just get back on track and focus on what you want. It's up to you , and you will do it!

Jorge Cruise

Jorge's Quotes #1600476
#87. Years of solitude had taught him that, in one's memory, all days tend to be the same, but that there is not a day, not even in jail or in the hospital, which does not bring surprises, which is not a translucent network of minimal surprises.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1635863
#88. Things seem more obvious behind the camera. Like the way Corgi keeps one eye on the game and the other on Happy. The way Yelp's hands are shaking and his eyes are shadowed, and the way Jorge watches him without seeming

Dot Hutchison

Jorge's Quotes #1650018
#89. Why a should a dream be any less real than this table. Or Macbeth be less real than today's newspaper.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1650647
#90. It's a privilege to work as an anchor for Univision, but more important, I am amazed by how Latinos are transforming America.

Jorge Ramos

Jorge's Quotes #1696422
#91. I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1742958
#92. There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.

Jorge Garcia

Jorge's Quotes #1790523
#93. I believe the secret of the success of psychoanalysis resides in people's vanity.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1792650
#94. A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1814239
#95. Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1815592
#96. The system was elementary, as you can see. Naturally these "lotteries" failed. Their moral virtue was nil. They were not directed at all of man's faculties, but only at hope.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge's Quotes #1824109
#97. Does truth lie in the everyday events, the daily incidents, in the pettiness and vulgarity most people's lives are compounded of, or does the truth have its abode in the dream it is given us to dream to flee our sad human condition?

Jorge Amado

Jorge's Quotes #1851660
#98. Don't be afraid to grow up, Peter. It's only a trap if you forget how to fly.

Jorge Enrique Ponce

Jorge's Quotes #1853938
#99. In our world, 80 to 90 percent of women's weight gain comes from overindulging in insulin-stimulating food. And it's not hardcore, straight-up, I-can-see you-in-the-face sugar. They're eating whole-wheat bread. They're eating ancient grains. They're eating black beans. That stuff is horrible.

Jorge Cruise

Jorge's Quotes #1868058
#100. I'm not seeing tough questions asked on American television. I'm not seeing those correspondents that would question those in power. It's like a club. We are not asking the tough questions.

Jorge Ramos

Jorge's Quotes #1878697

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