Jose Cela Quotes

#1. Think when we talk of horses, that you see them Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth; For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass:

William Shakespeare

#2. When debts are not paid because they cannot be paid, the best thing to do is not talk about them, and shuffle the cards again.

Camilo Jose Cela

#3. I am not, sir, a bad person, though in truth I am not lacking in reasons for being one.
[Sp., Yo, senor, no soy malo, aunque no me faltarian motivos para serlo.]

Camilo Jose Cela

#4. There were never tears in Jamie's eyes though. He only cried in the way that couldn't be seen or heard. Inside.

Neha Yazmin

#5. It's funny, but when there are dominant teams, there are a number of people who rail about the fact that they're always seeing the Dallas Cowboys or the San Francisco 49ers or the Green Bay either in the playoffs or in the Super Bowl.

Al Michaels

#6. Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

Lois Lowry

#7. Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare.

Pope Paul VI

#8. An earth hard as iron lay locked beneath a sky whose mottled clouds spit snow like ashes sucked up a chimney and then dispersed with the smoke.

John Updike

#9. There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.

Camilo Jose Cela

#10. On the hinder slope of the hill two little goatherds are tending a flock of goats; one of them is sitting on a rock whittling a crook out of ash, while the other is trying to coax a few tweets out of a reed flute.

Camilo Jose Cela

#11. If you want to learn to swim you have to throw yourself in the water.

Bruce Lee

#12. Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist.

Kristin Hannah

#13. But I'd better not go to fast in my story, for all things want their order, and no matter how early one gets up, dawn doesn't come any sooner.

Camilo Jose Cela Conde

#14. I'm not made to philosophize, I don't have the heart for it. My heart is more like a machine for making blood to be spilled in a knife fight...

Camilo Jose Cela

#15. Disney has a bible for their characters, so that people who draw Disney characters have to make them look correct.

Trina Robbins

#16. What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.

Alain De Botton

#17. Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

George Jean Nathan

#18. Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

Camilo Jose Cela

#19. Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

Camilo Jose Cela

#20. I don't want to stay where I'm not wanted. I don't want to stay where I'm disliked.

Charles Bukowski

#21. Man has reached the moon, but twenty centuries ago a poet knew the enchantments that would make the moon come down to earth.

Julio Cortazar