Richard Blanco Quotes

#1. Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

Richard Blanco

#2. Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

Richard Blanco

#3. But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

Peter DeFazio

#4. I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

Elon Musk

#5. All that we have gained, the machine threatens-
once a tool assumes a force of its own.
Instead of letting us get used to mastery, for buildings more severe it cuts the stone.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#6. We have always been searching for home. It's in our art ... our religion ... everything.

Richard Blanco

#7. The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

Luke Davies

#8. John Kennedy really did extend the reach of the American people and said, like Lincoln said in a way, that our reach is farther than our grasp - and we should aim high.

Richard Dreyfuss

#9. Whoever wishes may accompany me: the road is long, it's painful but it's lived.

Clarice Lispector

#10. No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.

Horace Greeley

#11. We've had it very clear to the Bosnians that our obligation to equip and train their forces is completely conditional on the foreign forces being gone.

Warren Christopher

#12. Empty promises can kill a good woman. She may still breathe, but inside her heart will be dead. I'm

Emily Minton

#13. Maisie stepped out and moved as if there were gravity. "Are you coming or what?"
Rook nodded and hefted Steve with him. "You should consider counseling."
"For what?"
"Your God complex.

Erin Kellison

#14. No one touched the pumpkin foot, except me. I cut a huge slice and dug in. To my surprise, it tasted musty and earthy, just how I imagined the flavor of the color brown would be...

Richard Blanco

#15. Suddenly, no one, including me, was in Guescheste anymore; they weren't in Miami or Cuba; they weren't in the present, or the future, but floating somewhre in the formless, timeless space of memory.

Richard Blanco

#16. Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.

Richard Blanco

#17. The road to happiness has never been a straight one, and yet, it is the only road worth travelling, no matter how curvy or rocky it is!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. We are always becoming. It never stops

Richard Blanco

#19. In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.

Kelly Cutrone