Top 100 Julio Quotes
#1. I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.
Romeo Santos
#2. My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a price people could afford
Ernest Gallo
#3. I had this coming. I just have to take my medicine. I think I'll spend the weekend brooding about what a shitty friend I am and mourning the loss of the friendship. I might have Ben & Jerry over to keep me company. Or maybe Ernest and Julio Gallo."
"Hey, no threesomes unless I get to watch.
Amelia C. Gormley
#4. When I moved to New York to act I was no good at working restaurants - hosting, waiting, bussing, dishwashing - I wasn't good at any aspect. But I did have a guitar. So I would sing 'Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard,' but you would only hear the chorus because the train comes by every 30 seconds.
Michael Weatherly
#6. Rap game Julio Franco, Chuck Norris, Texas Ranger/ Ice on my fingers look like I slap-boxed a penguin.
Riff Raff
#7. ...'You are like tango music itself, Kapka.' Julio says, catching his breath. 'You're the universal woman- wherever you go, you will always be a local and a stranger at the same time.
Kapka Kassabova
#8. Women will be the death of you." Julio entered and sat down. "That's why I don't mess with them. They make men weak."
"You don't mess with them because you're gay.
Kenya Wright
#9. I don't feel so sad when somebody dies, Julio, because they fly away to explore the stars and planets. When it's our turn we join them in exploring the universe.
Gilbert Hernandez
#10. Theo explained, in what he thought was perfect Spanish, that Julio needed extra help with his algebra. Evidently, she did not understand perfect Spanish because she asked Julio what Theo was talking about.
John Grisham
#11. What's the purpose of being with someone if they don't change your life? She said that, and Julio was present when she said it: that life only had purpose if you found someone who changed it, who destroyed your life.
Alejandro Zambra
#12. At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different perspectives, points of view.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#13. They'd come for you, and this time they'd come with weapons.
I was afraid of that. For you. But not of you.
Never afraid of you.
Julio Alexi Genao
#14. I didn't know what to do.
I knew what I wanted to do. I knew what I was supposed to do.
But I didn't know what I was going to do.
Julio Alexi Genao
#15. I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.
Julio Cortazar
#17. Health systems usually deal with the consequences of violence. We normally, in the health system, don't have the tools to prevent it, because these require policy interventions in every arena.
Julio Frenk
#18. And jazz is like a bird who migrates or emigrates or immigrates or transmigrates, roadblock jumper, smuggler, something that runs and mixes in
Julio Cortazar
#19. 'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'
Julio Cesar De Mello E Souza
#20. La Maga did not know that my kisses were like eyes which began to open up beyond her, and that I went along outside as if I saw a different concept of the world, the dizzy pilot of a black prow which cut the water of time and negated it.
Julio Cortazar
#21. I'm nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole life.
I could have done it. I should have done it.
I sat there and I thought about you, instead.
Julio Alexi Genao
#22. Habits, Andrea, are concrete forms of rhythm, are that portion of rhythm which helps to keep us alive.
Julio Cortazar
#23. Things end. Everything ends. But for a few days in a city full of hunger, and avarice, and alienation - in this fucked-up mess of a life spent wandering in the dark without a hand to hold on to - I was not alone. And neither were you.
Julio Alexi Genao
#24. I can't think of another writer who can move me as surreptitiously as Vian does
Julio Cortazar
#25. She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.
Julio Cortazar
#26. Happy was she who could believe without seeing, who was at one with the duration and continuity of life.
Julio Cortazar
#27. My children have become popular, and they show a tremendous love for the public. They're professionals.
Julio Iglesias
#28. I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.
Julio Cortazar
#30. Hate often separates those who ought to aid one another, since they are tending toward the same goal, and sympathy binds men together who are forced to do battle with one another.
Guglielmo Ferrero
#31. I want to sing simple things for the simple lives of simple people.
Julio Iglesias
#32. You won't remember me. You won't need me anymore.
You will leave me again.
I forgive you. I forgave you. I will always forgive you.
You should know that for a little while, you were not alone.Not alone.
I loved you when you were pixels on a screen.
Julio Alexi Genao
#33. Not your distress. Never that. I loved - I loved being there. Next to you. The pile of limbs that was Us. Together in the same bed. Even if it meant waking up with a few new bruises.
Julio Alexi Genao
#34. Growing your own fruit at home is a wonderful treat and a huge money saver. Home grown food of any kind tastes delicious and being able to go outside and pick fresh fruit from a tree is something everyone should experience.
Julio Belson
#35. I have a great liking for polygraphs who cast their fishing poles in all
directions ...
Julio Cortazar
#37. And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?
Julio Cortazar
#39. We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
Julio Cortazar
#40. Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache.
Julio Iglesias
#42. Nowadays, a minister of health cannot consider his or her job done simply by looking at the health care system. It's not enough to have a health policy, you need healthy policies elsewhere.
Julio Frenk
#43. We went around without looking for each other, but knowing we went around to find each other.
Julio Cortazar
#44. Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives.
Julio Olalla
#45. How could I be sure of these teeangers' national origin? Was I using names of origin to give them a place instead, when it was clear that they were moving toward a new language?
Julio Ortega
#46. There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them in the aquarium at the Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility, their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.
Julio Cortazar
#47. You have to live by fighting each other, it's the law, the only way that things are
worth while but it hurts
Julio Cortazar
#48. But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself,into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously ...
Julio Cortazar
#49. The success my children have had has helped me immensely. I've showed them a certain respect for this career.
Julio Iglesias
#50. This world is larger than your heart
still larger than your pain
but know this:
everything ends
so let what remains of us all
be love.
Julio Alexi Genao
#51. I was asked a series of questions.
What did you see? Why are there no files in the video archives? How did the assassin escape?
I lied every time.
Julio Alexi Genao
#52. I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them.
Julio Cortazar
#53. When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
Julio Cortazar
#54. After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.
Julio Cortazar
#55. You live a life, you have a family, you sing your songs. You do not think about these things. You just do them. And then one day, it all make sense to you.
Julio Iglesias
#56. As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. ( ... ) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.
Julio Cortazar
#57. For me the thing that signals a great story is what we might call its autonomy, the fact that it detaches itself from its author like a soap bubble blown from a clay pipe.
Julio Cortazar
#59. My skin hungered for you. You were warm, and alive, and in my bed, and I wanted you so bad I could feel the ripple of need on the pads of my fingertips, on the palms of my hands, on the skin of my back, at the base of my cock, inside my ass
I wanted the taste of you in my mouth.
Julio Alexi Genao
#61. I don't believe in frontiers, and I don't believe in races or nationalities.
Julio Iglesias
#62. Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
Julio Cortazar
#63. Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
Julio Cortazar
#64. Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of our memory, for it is anything but ours; it works on its own terms, it assists us while deceiving us or perhaps deceives up to assist us.
Julio Cortazar
#65. What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us ... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?
Julio Cortazar
#66. Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.
Julio Cortazar
#68. I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.
Julio Iglesias
#69. I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by definition, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whatever slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of order.
Julio Cortazar
#70. Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.
Julio Cortazar
#71. Mathematics is one of the surest ways for a man to feel the power of thought and the magic of the spirit. Mathematics is one of the eternal truths and, as such, raises the spirit to the same level on which we feel the presence of God.
Julio Cesar De Mello E Souza
#72. Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.
Julio Frenk
#74. If my life were like the novels, this would be the dark period in act two after my one true love rejects me, where I reel off to do things I have to apologize for in act three.
Julio Alexi Genao
#75. The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
Julio Cortazar
#76. Sometimes people have a difficult time understanding my English.
Julio Iglesias
#77. I know you've forgotten me, but I'll remember you as long as I live.
Julio Alexi Genao
#78. The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.
Julio Cortazar
#79. If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem.
Julio Frenk
#80. Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.
Julio Cortazar
#82. You're safe, here."
"But you are not," you whispered. "Not ever. I forget. I forget and then I'll - I could kill you."
When I didn't reply, you dropped your head again.
I almost missed it when you murmured, "I always kill them, in the end.
Julio Alexi Genao
#83. Thus they went along, Punch and Judy, attracting each other and repelling, as love must do if it is not to end up as calendar art or a pop tune.
Julio Cortazar
#84. When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.
Julio Iglesias
#85. My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married.
Julio Iglesias
#86. I sometimes longed for someone who, like me, had not adjusted perfectly with his age, and such a person was hard to find; but I soon discovered cats, in which I could imagine a condition like mine, and books, where I found it quite often.
Julio Cortazar
#87. I like to exercise. I always walk an hour a day, I swim 250 days a year and I do balancing exercises which take me an hour.
Julio Iglesias
#88. Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.
Julio Cortazar
#89. I loved you even when you forgot me.
And - for a little while - you loved me back.
Julio Alexi Genao
#90. People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.
Julio Iglesias
#91. Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behind the most superficial pretext because he has not gotten past the surface.
Julio Cortazar
#92. He who wishes to preserve, often destroys, so that virtue seems vice, and vice seems virtue.
Guglielmo Ferrero
#93. Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.
Julio Cortazar
#94. The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.
Julio Cortazar
#95. You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.
Julio Iglesias
#96. I could sit right here and think a thousand miles away, Since I had the blues this bad, I can't remember the day ...
Julio Cortazar
#97. If I was gay, I would be the best gay of all history.
Julio Iglesias
#98. All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard.
Julio Cortazar
#99. And it is also the only reward for my work: to feel what I have written is like the back of a cat as it is being petted, with sparks and an arching in cadence. (page 402)
Julio Cortazar
