Top 100 Paz Quotes
#1. La Paz, Bolivia, is the most extraordinary city.
Phil Keoghan
#2. flight's next stopover, La Paz, a little
George Jehn
#3. I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's marvellous.
Paz Vega
#4. In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries.
Evo Morales
#5. [About Paz De La Huerta ... ] And there is this girl in the audience and she's gorgeous I can only kind of see her silhouette and she's getting like her t*ts out and I'm like: God, that's unusual.
Lana Del Rey
#6. How do I speak Spanish? Not too well. Paz taught me a few words that, if people weren't nice to me, I could tell them a few things. I got to study with [chef] Thomas Keller, who we all love as a guy and Jim had a relationship with him at [his restaurant] the French Laundry.
Adam Sandler
#7. Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.
Ellen Ochoa
#8. The "Paz" was an armed slaver flying the American flag.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#9. Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
Octavio Paz
#10. Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
Octavio Paz
#11. I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one.
Paz De La Huerta
#12. I do not know if the story repeats itself: I only know that people change little
Octavio Paz
#13. We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
Octavio Paz
#14. The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
Octavio Paz
#15. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz
#18. Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.
Octavio Paz
#19. Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
Octavio Paz
#20. The woman who died night after night
and her dying was a long goodbye,
a train that never left.
Octavio Paz
#21. The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
Octavio Paz
#22. An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
Octavio Paz
#23. I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.
Paz Vega
#24. Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz
#25. In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.
Octavio Paz
#26. Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.
Octavio Paz
#27. All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.
Octavio Paz
#28. The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate.
Octavio Paz
#29. A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
Octavio Paz
#30. Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz
#31. If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.
Octavio Paz
#32. A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
Octavio Paz
#33. Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.
Octavio Paz
#34. Cobras are magical. They can stand up on just energy alone.
Paz De La Huerta
#35. A saint speaks with God or with himself, two forms of silence.
Octavio Paz
#36. Not understanding anything is terrible, because I communicate very much in my real life.
Paz Vega
#37. Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
Octavio Paz
#38. A nation of intellectuals, a nation of thugs/Jesus is hate, a nation of Satan is love!
Vinnie Paz
#39. Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
Octavio Paz
#40. To love is to battle, to open doors. The world changes if two can look at each other and see.
Octavio Paz
#43. Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
Octavio Paz
#44. Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
Octavio Paz
#46. I'm the god of war, the resurrector of the horror-core. The carnivore, destroying you wasn't hard at all
Vinnie Paz
#47. I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.
Paz Vega
#48. Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers ... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz
#49. Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
Octavio Paz
#50. Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio Paz
#51. Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.
Octavio Paz
#52. The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
Octavio Paz
#53. The past reappears because it is a hidden present.
Octavio Paz
#54. A human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.
Octavio Paz
#56. Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There's a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there's a delicateness.
Paz Vega
#57. Oh life to live, life already lived,
time that comes back in a swell of sea,
time that recedes without turning its head,
the past is not past, it is still passing by,
flowing silently into the next vanishing moment
Octavio Paz
#58. All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
Octavio Paz
#59. I had a void, God. Filled with whores & with blunts. I ain't have choice God I was born in the slums
Vinnie Paz
#60. To live is also to think, and sometimes to cross that border beyond which feeling and thinking become one: poetry. Meanwhile,
Octavio Paz
#62. I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child.
Paz De La Huerta
#63. I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
Octavio Paz
#65. Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
Octavio Paz
#66. Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
Octavio Paz
#67. A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Octavio Paz
#68. Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
Octavio Paz
#69. Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
Octavio Paz
#70. A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
Octavio Paz
#71. The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
Octavio Paz
#72. I want to have roles in English.
Paz Vega
#73. I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.
Paz De La Huerta
#74. I feel that when people hire me they know it's going to be a collaboration and that they hire me for what I give on all sorts of levels, from my movement to the emotion I bring to the project, the passion, all of it.
Paz De La Huerta
#76. Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.
Paz De La Huerta
#77. Big dress, cocktails, party - I love that. It is my work, but my work allow me to have glamour, to wear beautiful and amazing dresses, to go to big ceremonies.
Paz Vega
#78. I never slept outside of my home.
Paz Vega
#79. Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
Octavio Paz
#80. To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's words to their logical or grammatical connotations.
Octavio Paz
#81. To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
Octavio Paz
#82. Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
Octavio Paz
#83. Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.
Octavio Paz
#84. For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.
Octavio Paz
#85. If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time.
Octavio Paz
#86. I hold the ratchet unorthodox. Pernell Whittaker, I'm duckin' all sorts of shots
Vinnie Paz
#88. My family is very traditional, Catholic.
Paz Vega
#89. The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion
Vinnie Paz
#90. Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
Octavio Paz
#91. I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.
Paz Vega
#92. Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
Octavio Paz
#93. I love going to the hair salon. I'm Spanish. I think it's more of a Latina thing to go to the hair salon.
Paz De La Huerta
#94. Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
Octavio Paz
#95. Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
Octavio Paz
#96. The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us ... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.
Octavio Paz
#97. What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.
Octavio Paz
#98. One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.
Octavio Paz
#99. For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.
Paz Vega
#100. On hitting a shaken opponent - His legs turned to spaghetti and I was all over him like the sauce.
Vinny Paz
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