Maria Luisa Bombal Quotes

#1. Business is tough, and the fashion industry is particularly tough.

Ali Hewson

#2. What test?" Asked Nudge.
"Max, you're incorruptible."
"Only by power." I said. "You haven't tried chocolate yet.

James Patterson

#3. As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

John Green

#4. How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand ...

Maria Luisa Bombal

#5. If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.

Karl Lagerfeld

#6. Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices
Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues
Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.

T. S. Eliot

#7. It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move through life without hope or fear, capable of finally enjoying all the small pleasures, which are the most lasting.

Maria Luisa Bombal

#8. You know," King said, "I'm not much good at telling stories. That sounds like a paradox, but it's not; it's the reason I write them down.

Stephen King

#9. Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

Tom Vilsack

#10. America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path.

Bernard Baruch

#11. We get one chance at this life. We have one body, one mind, and one life to live. Reading provides us with a vicarious experience of others' lives.

Tony Reinke

#12. I use to think being a warning was not meant to be apart of anyone's life purpose. However, how could you teach anything in life, without the deepest understanding of what not to do? Personally, I don't want someone offering advice, unless they have been to hell and back with a map and a compass.

Shannon L. Alder

#13. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world ... ?

Michael Chabon

#14. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don't lose yourself at happy hour, but don't lose yourself on the corporate ladder, either.

Shauna Niequist

#15. Para ser inteligente, hay que empezar desde chica.

To be intelligent, one must start young.

Maria Luisa Bombal

#16. I could eat healthier; I could drink less.

Melissa McCarthy

#17. I made my life, the same way it looks like you're gonna make yours - out of pride and stubbornness and too much anger. You better think hard, Ruth Anne, about what you want and who you're mad at. You better think hard.

Dorothy Allison