The Devil's Highway Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

#1. I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run.

Fergie

#2. I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#3. Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Franz Grillparzer

#4. Courage is not something that you already have that makes you brave when the tough times start. Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.

Victor Hugo

#6. Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#7. At twenty years of age, the old-fashioned schooling turned me out helpless, ignorant and dissatisfied. Forty years later I encounter the product of the new schooling - still more helpless, still more ignorant, and possibly not even dissatisfied.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#8. When you feel yourself to be in critical condition, you must treat yourself as gently as you would a sick friend.

Julia Cameron

#9. No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest.

Fran Lebowitz

#10. The words are so full of smoke and mirrors that it's impossible to find a real person behind them.

Gayle Forman