Junto Diaz Quotes

#1. If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.

Martin Freeman

#2. Life is something that has to be lived and not talked about.

Carl Jung

#3. I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

Lena Dunham

#4. A few of them performed the beautiful childhood art of snickering.

Markus Zusak

#5. At his desk, pen in hand, none was more articulate than Thomas. As soon as he found himself shut into the car with Sarah Ham, terror seized his tongue.

Flannery O'Connor

#6. Well, we have got to understand, for example, Russia is an orthodox Christian nation. So is Ukraine. That happened in 988 in Crimea, a place called Kievan Rus, which was the Russia around Kiev at that time. It's 1,000 years ago, but, to a Russian, it's yesterday.

Marvin Kalb

#7. In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.

Eli Wallach

#8. Walking is great to be used as an exercise program.

Lee Haney

#9. Thoughts are the imagination of the conscious mind and dreams are the imagination of the subconscious mind.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#11. I might have no one in the world, but at least I'm free.

Junot Diaz

#12. At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

Laura Hillenbrand

#13. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#15. I know what it means to be moved by a book in my body so much that I go looking for its analog in the real world.
[From an interview with Complex magazine, 12/2012]

Junot Diaz

#16. Resist the short term temptation of procrastination; the immediate pleasure and relief that it brings does not fair in comparison to the long lasting damage it does to your dreams and goals.

Noel DeJesus