Tortilla Curtain Page Numbers Quotes

#1. The magical gem bracelet, in all of its yellow beauty, was out of its league. My mind and heart couldn't slow down." --- Jennifer Mills

Dianne Bright

#2. re: the US agriculture industry: " This puts us in the odd position of consuming fossil fuels --geologically one of the rarest and most useful resources ever discovered-- to provide a substitute for dirt --the cheapest and most widely available agricultural input imaginable.

David R. Montgomery

#3. I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

Joe Jonas

#4. I will give you a name," he said to it, "and I shall call you Sting.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. Government can't create wealth, but it can create the conditions for private enterprise to flourish.

Bill Owens

#6. God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm.

George Herbert

#7. I like to give clues - titles - that can give a simple, evocative hook into what picture or feeling welled up in my mind when I came up with the song.

David First

#8. I learned from my father how to swear right and how to string it together for optimum effect/affect. I use it like karate. I bring it out when it's needed.

Ross Mathews

#9. To turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government, save one that boasts of its repressiveness.

Anthony Burgess

#10. You know, in college, I smoked a little pot, did a little blow.

Barack Obama

#11. I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Marcus Tullius Cicero