Quotes About Papi

#1. How much English do you know? None, Papi said after a moment. Eulalio shook his head. Papi met Eulalio last and liked him least.

Junot Diaz

#2. Papi chose to be invisible today so you won't ever have to be.

Meg Medina

#3. Papi looked down at the side-view mirror, at the pine branches sticking out from behind the truck, and every time Rocio raised her voice, singing and screaming at the same time, it felt like the front seats were flooding with water.

Mario Alberto Zambrano

#4. The bike would be finished this
summer and Papi would be fine, and Janice and all the
other concerned medical professionals could take their
long-term care facility and shove it, while the rest of us
ate empanadas and laughed about that one summer Papi
almost lost his mind.

Sarah Ockler

#5. They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that's how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the shore and watched.

Sarah Ockler

#6. You know what each house should have? A Duty Free space. Like at the airports. Then I might consider moving in with a woman.

Carol Vorvain

#7. Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty ... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. So the first thing you need to do about conflict is to prevent it, and the best way of preventing it is by dealing with the question of poverty.

James Wolfensohn

#9. I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.

Peter Greenaway

#10. Yeah, I picked up a book and I read. You can get something out of a book, even a bad book ... but a cunt, it's just sheer loss of time ...

Henry Miller

#11. Do you imagine Sergio Leone with a philosophy? Come on! He was a primitive of movies, a great director on set.

Luciano Vincenzoni

#12. When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun.

Freddy Adu

#13. If you persist in trying To attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift!) If you persist in making effort To obtain what effort cannot get; If you persist in reasoning About what cannot be understood, You will be destroyed By the very thing you seek.

Thomas Merton

#14. JEMAINE
Lisa?
BRET
Yes, she's in Delta Force. She's been deployed to Fallujah.
JEMAINE
But she works in the croissant shop.
BRET
Yeah, she's got two jobs. She's a pastry chef and a sniper.

Flight Of The Conchords

#15. I'm fresh out of fucks to give.

Tucker Max

#16. Remember, that the darkness is not bad, just different, and all that is good, or bad, is there in the light, or the dark, only our perception changes.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#17. Every time that I hear the orchestra tuning up, I get chills all over my body. You know, catharsis after catharsis. It's better than sex!

Rosie O'Donnell

#18. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

Maya Angelou