Macedonio Fernandez Quotes

#1. What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist.

John Lydon

#3. Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

Laini Taylor

#4. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?

Jorge Luis Borges

#5. I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

Christiane Amanpour

#6. The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.

Jackson Brundage

#8. The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.

Dov Davidoff

#9. Above all, tell the truth.

Grover Cleveland

#10. I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.

Chloe Sevigny

#11. Nick was chocolate and cigarettes and whiskey and danger, and everything I should stay away from.

Elin Hilderbrand

#12. How short lived knowledge is. When I was 20 I knew it all: now at 70 I can't understand a thing

Macedonio Fernandez

#13. Just organizing your environment can have a calming and stabilizing effect on your mind and reduce your anxiety levels.

Lorna Myers