Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

I used to approach writing like a football game. If I went out there and aggressively saw more, I'd know more, and I'd capture more, and I'd write better. Hut, hut, hut: First down and haiku!

Luis Alberto Urrea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: August 20, 1955

Topics

FootballWritingGameBetterDown

I always felt more comfortable with a full face of makeup.

Andra Day

MakeupFaceComfortableMoreAlways

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Stephen Cole Kleene

MathematicsMeLogicTwoBackground

You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

Johnny Marr

StartGrowYouStopGrow UpWithout

Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers.

Christine Gregoire

EducationPovertyLiftOutCareers

A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.

AnnaLynne McCord

GoodGovernmentPeopleCityAmerican

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

Arthur Smith

TravelBookBetterWalkingMy Own

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

William Shakespeare

ReputationLostIdleWithoutFalse

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

DoingWorthWhateverWell

Innovation is what we're going to need for the future, and that's always been a part of the technology industry.

Suzan DelBene

FutureTechnologyInnovationNeed

Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.

Peter Capaldi

MomentsBackGoUpThingsJust

To my parents, Morris and Helen, I give thanks for the gift of life, the vehicle for the expression of my work, and for your continued full and unequivocal support from both sides of the physical plane.

Peter A. Levine

LifeWorkSupportParentsGiftGive

Relations between countries are built on values and interests and many other things, but at the end of the day, leaders are also only human beings.

Tzipi Livni

DayEnd Of The DayEndValuesHuman

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