Top 100 Luis's Quotes
#1. The question isn't will she know; it's what will she do with the knowledge'. Luis's career is in her hands. He put it there, seven months ago to the fucking day.
Guilie Castillo-Oriard
#2. Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence.
Jorge Luis Borges
#4. It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.
Luis Palau
#5. 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
#6. The current business model for language education is the student pays - in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world's population doesn't have $500.
Luis Von Ahn
#7. Blind to all fault, destiny can be ruthless at one's slightest distraction.
Jorge Luis Borges
#8. I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.
Luis Gutierrez
#9. Look, there's no rule in soccer against biting your opponent. There's not even a rule against eating your opponent. The only rule in soccer is that you can't use your hands.
Luis Suarez
#10. I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.
Luis Miguel
#11. A writer always begins by being too complicated - he's playing at several games at once.
Jorge Luis Borges
#12. Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.
Luis Palau
#13. Face, to me, is a metaphor of sadness. And I want to share this sadness. I'm not really interested whether it's an Indian face or not - that's not as important for me. But it's still important to establish the relationships in order to bring about a consciousness of our fragility.
Luis Gonzalez
#14. Who was to say that God did not use the coyote's teeth to eat His gifts?
Luis Alberto Urrea
#15. I watch a lot of TV. That's how I spend most of my time outside of work. If I had more time, I would fill it 100 percent with watching TV.
Luis Von Ahn
#16. A retrospective's huge potential for learning should not be off-limits to any team member.
Luis Goncalves
#17. It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.
Luis Suarez
#18. In spite of these three obstacles, Menard's fragmentary _Quixote_ is more subtle than Cervantes'.
Jorge Luis Borges
#19. Player I would like to sign for Internazionale? It's easy, the strongest in Europe at the moment is Lionel Messi, so I would say him. Messi has amazing qualities, he is the best of all, number one. That is unquestiionable.
Luis Figo
#20. Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#21. It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.
Jorge Luis Borges
#23. Between the midnight and the morning: on a given day, that's the hardest stretch of time to fill.
Luis Joaquin M Katigbak
#24. 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
#25. When I received my B. S. degree in 1932, only two of the fundamental particles of physics were known.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#26. 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
#27. I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
Luis Miguel
#28. There is always a chance to get even and I'm proud of the fact that for all the blows I always got back up again. That's what makes me most content.
Luis Suarez
#29. I was asked a question: 'Would I want to play for Madrid?' It's like anyone asked if they want to change jobs and move to a bigger company.
Luis Suarez
#30. 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
#31. Listen carnales listen to the hymn of it, the lie of it, the prayer of it, the voices singing our names: listen it's our story, it's our song,
Luis Alberto Urrea
#32. I came to Berklee to study guitar, I really wanted to be a jazz guitarist, and I really came because I really wanted to come for Pat Metheny, and then when I get to Berklee, there's no Pat Metheny, he's not there, and so now what do I do?
Juan Luis Guerra
#33. Injuries are not only a physical question, which is the most important thing, of course, but also a question of your mind. If you're thinking: 'I'm not going to make it', 'I can't cope', 'it hurts', 'it's never going to get better', then it won't.
Luis Suarez
#34. I have learned that failure is a part of success; it's part of the learning curve. Sometimes you have to walk that road to achieve big things.
Luis Gerardo Mendez
#36. Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.
Luis Gutierrez
#37. The poem doesn't have stanzas, it has a body, the poem doesn't have lines,/ it has blood, the poem is not written with letters, it's written/ with grains of sand and kisses, petals and moments, shouts and/ uncertainties.
Jose Luis Peixoto
#39. Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced he will soon call back Spain's 1300 troops from Iraq - meaning the coalition of the willing is fast turning into a duet of the stubborn.
Jon Stewart
#40. If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library,
Jorge Luis Borges
#41. If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.
Luis Bunuel
#42. People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!
Luis Von Ahn
#43. I'm not envious of Leo [Messi]or Ney [Neymar]. Why would I be? If there is envy in the dressing room, you know it's only going to affect results.
Luis Suarez
#44. 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
#45. Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."
Luis Walter Alvarez
#46. Everything you see comes from inside. People don't see it but inside the dressing room we laugh and joke a lot so it's not just for the cameras. It's the way things are off the pitch too. We are happy for each other, it is all natural.
Luis Suarez
#48. The Niagara on a bicycle. It's like trying to cross the Niagara on a bicycle, which is impossible, but it's an expression in the Dominican Republic that basically says that someone is going through a hard time.
Juan Luis Guerra
#49. Fortunately I don't want to be part of the mainstream. When I see a Kiki Smith work, for example, she's very contemporary, and I feel a lot of emotion in each of her pieces; I think she understands our time, and she makes really interesting art because of that.
Luis Gonzalez
#50. 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
#51. It's important for the team not to be relying on one player.
Luis Suarez
#52. 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
#53. At first I didn't think I was going to fit into Barcelona's way of playing. There was a lot of tiki-taka and I was thinking that without a lot of space to play in, I'd find it more difficult. I worried about that.
Luis Suarez
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. There are people who criticise me, and that's normal because of the way I am on the pitch. I get angry, I get tense.
Luis Suarez
#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
#58. If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#59. Sometimes things go wrong, even when you're doing your best. That just shows that none of us are perfect. So I keep trying with all of my heart, and if that's not good enough, I'm not going to hang my head.
Luis Tiant
#60. I've always been a big fan of Thierry Henry. I enjoy watching all the great players, really. But we're always drawn to some players more than others, and in my case, it's Titi. He's my favourite player. I also really liked Luis Figo when he was at Real Madrid.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#61. When you acknowledge the audience's shadow you become their hero.
Luis Cubero
#62. Contrary to Eastern Europe, where the border was more porous and you could exchange information more easily, Cuba is an island. Thus, it is more isolated, and it's easier for the government to have great control over its citizens.
Luis Fortuno
#63. 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
#64. My favorite drive is Highway 101 in California between Los Angeles and San Luis Obispo. I love the 101; Highway 1 is too windy, and 5 is too boring - the 101 is just right. It's like the Mama Bear of scenic drives.
Art Alexakis
#65. Messi and Neymar will create beauty - just like Picasso's paint brush. I still believe Messi is the best in the world. He has a special magic and is more of a team player than Cristiano. Never before has there been such a difference between the King and the next.
Cesar Luis Menotti
#66. I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.
Jorge Luis Borges
#67. As humanity goes online, it's becoming an extremely advanced, large-scale processing unit.
Luis Von Ahn
#68. It's enough that if I am rich in anything, it is in perplexities rather then in certaintes.
Jorge Luis Borges
#69. I think today there are too many directors taking themselves seriously; the only one capable of saying anything really new and interesting is Luis Bunuel. He's a very great director.
Luchino Visconti
#70. When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don't decide the title, you don't decide the size, the order of the photographs ... so it's completely out of control!
Luis Gonzalez
#71. I moved into the garage at my mom's house, she wouldn't let me into the house, and the garage didn't have any running water. It did have electricity though, but it didn't have any running water, no bathroom. But, you know, it was great for me because I had my books there.
Luis J. Rodriguez
#72. My parents and grandparents listened to bacheta heavy, the true bachata from back in the day - Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Santos. I liked the genre, but I remember thinking, 'OK, enough of this.' I would sing Usher's 'U Remind Me' to the girls in school.
Prince Royce
#73. That's the moment when Tuesday, after all his caution, stopped being just my service dog, and my emotional support, and my conversation piece. That's when he became my friend.
Luis Carlos Montalvan
#74. 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
#75. We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process.
Luis Gutierrez
#76. Some people called me a fascist. That's mostly over, but there will be more attacks from the unions.
Luis Fortuno
#77. I was arrested and put in murder's row. They were trying to get me for some murders I didn't do. They had me in a cell next to Charles Manson; he was going to trial at the time. And it was all a row of black and brown guys and one white guy: Charles Manson.
Luis J. Rodriguez
#78. One indicator of Ernest Lawrence's influence is the fact that I am the eighth member of his laboratory staff to receive the highest award that can come to a scientist - the Nobel Prize.
Luis Walter Alvarez
#80. Away from the pitch, I'm a very calm person. I maybe have the odd cross word with my wife, like any relationship, but that's it.
Luis Suarez
#81. You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#82. 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
#83. When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It's the astonishment of being myself
Jorge Luis Borges
#84. 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
#85. It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.
Luis Gerardo Mendez
#86. I'm so happy with the show. There's nothing in this life I'll ever regret - bad or good. I look back, learn from it, and be a better man the next day.
Luis D. Ortiz
#87. I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside a welfare state in the European community - that's the synthesis I want to achieve.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
#88. I think as a writer, it's important to show the other part of being gay, not only the sex part.
Luis Negron
#89. 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
#90. Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.
Luis Gutierrez
#91. I swear on my children's lives that I never look at the statistics or look at beating anyone's records. All I do is look to improve but not compete against any record. I want to win trophies and score goals because that's my job as a forward.
Luis Suarez
#92. I never told you this but I always thought the club should have recognised you far more when you retired. For the career that you had, one of Liverpool's greatest players, you should have had a much bigger and better send-off in your final match. That's just what I felt.
Luis Suarez
#93. My whole life I have been in a hurry, like running fast after a goal, and now I realize it's nice to sometimes slow down a little bit and enjoy the ride.
Luis Gerardo Mendez
#94. That's the mentality - don't just play it, win it.
Luis Suarez
#95. According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.
Luis Gutierrez
#96. When it comes to responding to Jesus, I find it's important to distinguish between reverence, religion, and relationship.
Luis Palau
#97. I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.
Luis Gonzalez
#98. When playing against big teams, it's the small details that count.
Luis Garcia
#99. It's absolutely essential for every generation to capture that social responsibility. Injustice grows like weeds. The injustices of the world are like weeds, and if you do nothing they'll choke your whole garden, man.
Luis Valdez
#100. I was both charmed and moved by Midday with Buuel, Mexican filmmaker and writer Claudio Isaac's personal and very poetic recollection of his friendship with his mentor, the Spanish surrealist Luis Buuel.
C.M. Mayo
