Top 100 Vargas Quotes
#1. Only Noelia Vargas Vargas knew how to see me in this life. And now I have no way of knowing how much of me existed only by virtue of her gaze.
Laia Jufresa
#2. Horace was a nice little guy who looked like one of his own baboons; he turned me over to a Doctor Vargas who was a specialist in exotic biologies
the same Vargas who was on the Second Venus Expedition. He told me what had happened and I looked at the gibbons, meantime rearranging my prejudices.
Robert A. Heinlein
#3. Well, lion tamers are probably difficult to live with - I suppose there's no small amount of testosterone involved in taming lions, Vargas said, shrugging.
John Irving
#4. You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#5. Frank will be okay, Alice," Mr. Vargas said. "He's an odd duck, but brilliant children often are. I make myself out to be," he said. "I'm worried, yes. But I'd worry more if she didn't have Frank. She's all he got, and she knows it.
Julia Claiborne Johnson
#6. My sisters were wrong to name the Vargas boys in the oath. Names had nothing to do with it. All boys were destined to break your heart.
Sarah Ockler
#7. When people die, Vargas - I mean the people you will always remember, the ones who changed your life - they never really go away, Pepe told the young doctor.
John Irving
#8. Vargas isn't supposed to be faithful to a woman he hasn't slept with! Vargas only wants to sleep with Dr. Gomez, Lupe.
John Irving
#9. Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella.
(spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#10. As
Vargas Llosa has said, "Democracy is an event that provokes yawns in the countries in which rule of law exists."49
Pope Benedict XVI
#11. He (Mario Vargas Llosa) looks grave, transported. And there, I think, is the personality that wrote the books: one in which a subversive comic sense and appetite for the ridiculous jostle with an intense, statesmanlike seriousness about the business of being alive.
Tim Martin
#12. Kippenger suppressed a grin
I could've sworn he did. Without looking at anyone, he said, "Jargon wrote, 'You'll get nothing from me, ever, you dog-breath, rotted corpse of a king.'"
Vargas flowered at me. In return, I smiled and looked around the room, rather proud of myself for that.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#13. Fernando Vargas may have had a 6-pack in his stomach, but he didn't have a six-pack on his chin.
Larry Merchant
#14. I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, Carlos Fuentes in Mexico - but I knew that many of them had failed, and in any event, I wasn't exactly in their league.
Michael Ignatieff
#15. I was falling in love.
I am losing my father.
With Emilio Vargas.
To smoke and shadow.
My heart fluttered.
My heart aches.
To feel it.
To deny it.
Life.
Death.
Possibilities.
Endings
Sarah Ockler
#16. I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#17. You can't rely on the approval of others. I used to always look for praise from my directors to reassure myself that I was doing a good job. I don't do that anymore.
Jacob Vargas
#18. When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#19. If we are truly fortunate, we have employers who did not abandon us, family who stood by us, and perhaps someone who helped us find our way back, who never forget that beneath all the appalling behavior there was a human being.
Elizabeth Vargas
#23. I remember the first article I ever wrote, and I saw my name in the paper, and I already knew I was undocumented, and I was thinking: 'How can they now say I don't exist?'
Jose Antonio Vargas
#24. When it comes to fighting for citizenship that many people take for granted, there isn't anyone I would not talk to. When it comes to immigration, there isn't any question I will not answer.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#25. Left-leaning bloggers have had a tremendous impact on the Democratic Party.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#26. I'm not just anybody.' 'No, indeed. Nobody is.
Fred Vargas
#28. I guess, as a reporter, I always thought that my biggest strength was that I could get anybody to talk to me. I wasn't the best writer, but I could get people to talk to me.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#29. We're way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.
Elizabeth Vargas
#30. I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
Chavela Vargas
#31. In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#32. I like Q&A's better than articles sometimes because I feel like I'd rather hear somebody actually talk or wrestle with ...
Jose Antonio Vargas
#33. A Criminal is the case of surplus of human energy directed in the wrong direction.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#34. I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#35. Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#36. Life can be amazing, so there's no reason to check out early.
Kimberly Vargas
#37. The Internet is changing the way we think of our relationship with government; it has the potential to bring to life what Abraham Lincoln said about the presidency being an instrument of the people.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#38. I worked in three local news markets and in every single one of them, they said: 'You're a lousy anchor. We would love to renew your contract and have you be our lead reporter here, but we're not going to have you anchor.'
Elizabeth Vargas
#39. Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India's baby girls. Some 50,000 female fetuses are aborted every month in India.
Elizabeth Vargas
#40. Until then he had believed they justified colonialism: Christianity, civilization, and commerce.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#41. I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#42. Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#43. The fact of the matter is, this country is not going to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. What are we supposed to do with them? What are we supposed to do with these kids?
Jose Antonio Vargas
#44. North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#45. My being gay is not a social issue; it's a fact. It's not something to be debated. It's a reality.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#46. Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#47. Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#48. I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn.
Jacob Vargas
#49. Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#50. I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is,
Jose Antonio Vargas
#52. A lot of our so-called Latino leaders are gutless. I talk to these cry-baby Latino leaders, and they say they can't win elections until Latinos are a majority.
Juan Vargas
#53. When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which one are you?
Ricardo Viana Vargas
#54. I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#55. Roger reached the conclusion that the hero of his childhood and youth was one of the most unscrupulous villains the West had excreted onto the continent of Africa.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#56. If the Devil is real, then God must be real, too.
Jacob Vargas
#57. As I graduated from public schools and started working in newsrooms, I told myself that I am only the 'illegal' that my own country has not bothered to get to know.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#58. I have no control whatsoever on how people perceive me from the Right or the Left. All I have control over is who I say I am.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#59. Writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#60. I wasn't supposed to be walking with Mark Zuckerberg. I wasn't supposed to be interviewing Romney's sons. Why was I doing it? Because I wanted to survive. I wanted to live. I wanted to earn what it means to be an American.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#61. As a newcomer to America who learned to 'speak American' by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture - the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#63. When you like something, you should do it all night long.
Chavela Vargas
#64. Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#65. Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?
Jose Antonio Vargas
#66. When people saw that the film was called 'White People,' many got very defensive. I've been getting some very interesting emails - and I'm used to hate mail, believe me. I think this idea that we grouped white people together is offensive to people.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#67. I've been uncomfortable dealing with my identity since I was 16 years old.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#68. To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#69. You can't go through life trying to please everyone.
Jacob Vargas
#70. You never quite know where your emotions will take you.
Jacob Vargas
#71. When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#73. It's easier to imagine the death of one person than those of a hundred or a thousand. When multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It's not easy to be moved by abstract things.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#74. There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#76. I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#77. For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'
Jose Antonio Vargas
#78. Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#79. There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#81. What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.
Chavela Vargas
#83. I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#84. The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#85. There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#86. My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#87. The naive idea that, through education, one can transmit culture to all of society is destroying 'higher culture', because the only way of achieving this universal democratization of culture is by impoverishing culture, making it ever more superficial.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#88. One of the most damaging myths of our time is that poor countries live in poverty because of a conspiracy of the rich countries, who arrange things so as to keep them underdeveloped, in order to exploit them.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#89. Their curses were not aimed at any definite target: they swore at such abstractions as God, the Officers, the Mothers of Others, with more music than meaning.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#90. He's a Canadian. I've not much more to say about him." "Isn't he a tall, fit, strapping fellow? A handsome guy, a good-looker with fair hair down to his shoulders?" "Yes," Camille said wairly. "How do you know that as well." "All Canadians are like that. Isn't that so?
Fred Vargas
#91. Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.
Juan Vargas
#93. it wouldn't surprise me if in a little while they begin to worship Leopold the Second the way they worship their fetishes and hideous objects." Where
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#94. We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#95. Because in the civilization of the spectacle, intellectuals are of interest only if they play the fashion game and become clowns.
Mario Vargas-Llosa
#98. At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#99. Technology and the Internet are not just changing politics here in the U.S. It's also happening abroad. In the Philippines, where I grew up, grassroots organizers used text messaging to help overthrow a president.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#100. In matters concerning God, you have to believe, not reason," Herbert would say. "If you reason, God vanishes like a mouthful of smoke." Roger
Mario Vargas-Llosa
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