Quotes About The American Dream In The Tortilla Curtain

#1. Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

David Gross

#2. If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

Sting

#3. Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

Isaac Watts

#5. I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.

Yelawolf

#6. This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

William Arthur Ward

#7. Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could just not think it's funny. You're just sitting there like, 'Am I in the twilight zone? Why is everyone laughing?' It's such a personal thing. People have such a personal visceral response to comedy.

Todd Phillips

#8. I got no problem with no Canadian niggas ... as long as y'all niggas know how to barbeque I got no problem with you being my neighbours. I mean, Canadian beer sucks, but..

Immortal Technique

#9. Do not forget you will never live forever.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. I don't like defensive shots-you can only get threes

W. G. Grace

#11. And Jessica saw in Richard an enormous amount of potential, which, properly harnessed by the right woman, would have made him the perfect matrimonial accessory.

Neil Gaiman

#12. I always felt, you don't have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.

Elmore Leonard

#13. An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

Yukio Mishima

#14. Always be yourself and speak your truth. Better to allow others to walk away than betray your own soul.

Tonya Sheridan