Jose Lezama Lima Quotes

#1. If you must go nowhere, step out.

Jose Lezama Lima

#2. If the entire team can feel the same way about these things, you can consistently remain a winner.

Jim Otto

#3. The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere.

Jose Lezama Lima

#4. Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.

Jose Lezama Lima

#5. Let me ask you a question. How long is too long to text someone back? My wife still thinks I died in 9/11.

Frankie Boyle

#6. The violet sea longs for the birth of gods,
for to be born here is an unspeakable feast,
a drumroll of commanding retinues and tritons.

Jose Lezama Lima

#7. The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.

Paulo Coelho

#8. Losing is like knowing that, in the movie scene where a thousand die but the hero lives, you're one of the obliterated.

David Guterson

#9. The soul started at the knee-cap and ended at the navel.

Jose Lezama Lima

#10. The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities.

Stephen R. Covey

#11. There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Friedrich Schiller

#12. I'm a very competitive person. I always have been. And it's hard to be competitive about something as amorphous as acting. But you can be competitive on the track, because the rules are very simple and the declaration of the winner is very concise.

Paul Newman

#13. You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. That little poem means just what it says and it says what it means, nothing less but nothing more.

Robert Frost

#14. The bad nights made the good ones impossible to enjoy; the good nights made the bad ones worse.

R. Lee Smith