Augusto Roa Bastos Quotes

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

Augusto Roa Bastos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
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  • Birth: June 13, 1917 - April 26, 2005

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WordsMemoryBehindYourHappens

My dad told me when I went into high school, 'It's not what you do when you walk in the door that matters. It's what you do when you walk out.' That's when you've made a lasting impression.

Jim Thome

WalkSchoolMeDoorHigh SchoolYou

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

John Drinkwater

GoodMusicPoetryPerceptionPoet

It's a mistake to confuse pity with love.

Stanley Kubrick

LoveMistakePityConfuse

Even if somebody in your family is successful, it doesn't change anything. On the contrary, I suppose people expect more of you in certain ways.

Martin Villeneuve

FamilyChangePeopleYouMoreYour

I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a backpack. I've had backpacks my whole life, and I'm a grown man now. I should have something better.'

Mike D

LifeTimeManBetterBagShowing Up

One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.

Michio Kaku

SciencePoliticsGameThinkProblem

The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty - and honor - to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.

Mitt Romney

HopeAloneLightWorldHonorEnough

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

Bob Richards

LifeGoodGreatDisciplineYouTop

In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have.

Antonio Villaraigosa

GoodMirrorFeel GoodSmallThink

It's healthy for government to be a kind of moral catalyst, using the bully pulpit of high office.

William Weld

GovernmentMoralHealthyKindOffice

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

William Gurnall

GodGraceDebtNamesCarryThrone

No fake stuff. If you have a personal relationship with a female, it'll be easier and more real to do a song.

Tink

RelationshipSongFakeYouPersonal

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