Viramontes Quotes

#1. I too am a member of the human race, (but admittedly not a very active member).

Ashleigh Brilliant

#2. Passion can blind even those who are ordinarily the most clear-headed.

Alexandre Dumas

#3. And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true but they'll be real

Mary Oliver

#4. Life is about trade-offs," said the lunatic ... "The difference between happy people and unhappy people is that happy people accept the trade-offs and unhappy people complain about them. Personally, I prefer to be happy.

Jacob M. Appel

#5. When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

Owen Wister

#6. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places ... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. We go to school for twelve or more years during our childhoods and early adulthoods, and then we're done. But when the pace of change gets this fast, the only way to retain a lifelong working capacity is to engage in lifelong learning.

Thomas L. Friedman

#8. Writing is the only way I know how to pray.

Helena Maria Viramontes

#9. Now it's your land. But it's important, at least to me,that you remember that it's not just your land. There is a history. Now you're part of it. Good night. And off they go.

Robert Goolrick

#10. No sense in talking tough unless you do it.

Helena Maria Viramontes

#11. Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

F.R. Leavis