Xavier Cugat Quotes

#1. I learned a lot from Xavier Cugat.

Desi Arnaz

#2. I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.

Francisco Goya

#3. I feel like after Money in the Bank in Phoenix, I almost took a nose dive, career-wise. I couldn't get the reigns on it, but I feel like I finally got the reigns on my career again, and that happens in entertainment.

Bret Hart

#4. The tribune was betrayed by one of his own slaves and killed.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#5. Every day somethin' new. Will I ever get to the heart of you?

Kristen Ashley

#6. Thoughts have the power,
To change how you perceive the world around you,
To inflict worry, or make peace abound too.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#7. When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

Pete Rose

#8. When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, Never keep your mind aler.

Rabindranath Tagore

#9. I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

Mitt Romney

#10. Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

Taslima Nasrin

#11. I love to cook. And I love food. I'd probably work with animals. Interior design, I'm very into that.

Gloria Votsis

#12. Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

Michel De Montaigne

#13. Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

Mark Nepo

#14. Once you win, you have no doubt that you can win. So you have gone through it once, and you can do it again.

Ivan Lendl

#15. I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

Laura Schlessinger

#16. 'Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,' he told me. 'The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is butting up against a bigger idea. It's only a matter of time until the smaller thought gives way to the greater. Don't fight it. Just try to enjoy the ride.'

Alan Cohen

#17. I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve.

Xavier Cugat